I was tortured by Iraqi soldiers who ‘cracked’ me with agonising tissue paper trick -I’m still ashamed of my reaction

IT'S been 35 years since John Nichol was captured during the Gulf War but for the veteran the memory is as fresh as yesterday. Harrowing images of the Flight Lieutenant and his pilot John Peters grippled the world during the 1991 conflict. They were beaten, bruised and broadcasted for Geneva Convention-denying propaganda.  But while the...