Geisha Kow­lessar

For­mer kid­nap vic­tim Deb­bie Ali is con­tem­plat­ing flee­ing the coun­try af­ter re­port­ed­ly re­ceiv­ing death threats.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, a dis­traught Ali said she feared not on­ly for her life but al­so for that of her hus­band and her two chil­dren. Ac­cord­ing to Ali, as she was about to leave home at Roys­to­nia, Cou­va, around 7.30 am on Mon­day she spot­ted a strange ve­hi­cle parked out­side. "I saw a strange white wag­on parked out­side and I saw this man point­ing at me and wav­ing his fin­ger at me," Ali said. She said she be­come so fright­ened she im­me­di­ate­ly locked her­self in­side, wor­ried her life was in im­me­di­ate dan­ger.

The for­mer school teacher said mem­o­ries of her 2007 ab­duc­tion flood­ed her mind. She added: "I was hys­ter­i­cal. Every­thing came rush­ing back to me. "I am still very fright­ened and wor­ried. I can­not go any­where by my­self be­cause I be­lieve some­thing would hap­pen to me." Ali said she found it strange the in­ci­dent oc­curred one day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning pub­licly said there was more to Ali's kid­nap­ping than met the eye. Dur­ing the same speech, Man­ning al­so claimed kid­nap­pings were on the de­crease. She said: "I find the en­tire thing so very co­in­ci­den­tal. My kid­nap­ping was very gen­uine and I ex­pe­ri­enced a great deal of emo­tion­al and phys­i­cal trau­ma."If the Prime Min­is­ter says he knows oth­er­wise then he should come out and let the pub­lic know," Ali chal­lenged.