British teacher taken hostage at gunpoint in Trinidad – before managing to escape by jumping out of the trunk of kidnapper’s car

A British teacher was taken hostage at gunpoint in the Caribbean before managing to jump out of the kidnapper’s car boot and make an escape.

aheer Esat, who runs a private school in Leicestershire, was kidnapped at gunpoint last Friday while visiting Trinidad to see his parents.

The kidnapper used a car to block the road as Esat, 46, and his 70-year-old father and brother-in-law were driving back from a mosque near the island’s west coast.

The male kidnapper, armed with a rifle, shouted at the family to lower their heads.

He dragged Esat from the rear passenger seat of the black Nissan hatchback into his own car.

His family was left unharmed.

Esat, who is of dual Trinidadian and British nationality, had not been carrying a mobile phone when he was kidnapped, according to the police.

His father issued urgent pleas for the kidnapper to release him, saying his son suffers from asthma and needs an inhaler.

Two days later, Esat was discovered by a passer-by wandering a cremation site about six miles away from the scene where he was kidnapped.

He was taken to the police and told officers that he had escaped by jumping out of the trunk of a car after being moved by his kidnappers.

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