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Dramatic scenes as SECOND kidnapping rocks Sydney - in Dural just metres away from 'stronghold' where granddad was tortured

Dramatic scenes as SECOND kidnapping rocks Sydney - in Dural just metres away from 'stronghold' where granddad was tortured

A man who was allegedly kidnapped by a gang of balaclava-clad men and held hostage for two days just metres from where a beloved grandfather was allegedly tortured has been freed in a dramatic rescue operation. 

The man, 53, was allegedly bundled into a Hyundai hatchback outside a tobacconist on Meadows Road in Mount Pritchard, west Sydney, about 6.15am on Tuesday. 

Revealed: How Peter Mandelson has THREE top law firms trying to clean his name

Revealed: How Peter Mandelson has THREE top law firms trying to clean his name

At 2 o’clock on Tuesday morning, Peter Mandelson was photographed returning to his London home after nine hours in police custody. 

Just two hours later, a punchy statement was released on his behalf by his blue-chip firm of lawyers Mishcon de Reya: ‘Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday despite an agreement with the police that he would attend an interview next month on a voluntary basis. 

Greens want to make it nigh on impossible to send anyone to prison - but criminals who do end up behind bars will be given the vote

Greens want to make it nigh on impossible to send anyone to prison - but criminals who do end up behind bars will be given the vote

Fewer criminals would see the inside of a jail cell under the Green Party's plans for power – which instead encourage crooks to 'make amends' to their victims.

In an internal policy document seen by the Daily Mail, the Greens would grant the fraction of violent felons who are sent to jail the right to vote, put them up in their own rooms and let them pursue artistic and creative hobbies whilst behind bars.

A slaughter so barbaric even some of the Nazi execution squad fainted. Newly unearthed pictures lay bare a notorious massacre in which 200 Greek prisoners were shot. Their story reveals a noble defiance no evil could extinguish...

A slaughter so barbaric even some of the Nazi execution squad fainted. Newly unearthed pictures lay bare a notorious massacre in which 200 Greek prisoners were shot. Their story reveals a noble defiance no evil could extinguish...

The Germans seemed to delight in their own ­brutality, that summer morning in Athens. As the men were hustled down from the trucks and herded to the place of execution, a photo­grapher was on hand to record each step of the path to death.

Over the next four hours, in a valley on the edge of the city, firing squads despatched the victims in batches of 20. By the end, blood lay in pools on the sunbaked earth and 200 ­resistance members were dead in one of the worst atrocities of the German Occupation of Greece.

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