Freedom for Chinnick
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• Driver Mickey Chinnick was this week tasting freedom for the first time in four years following his early release from a Turkish prison. Despite his ordeal Chinnick says he wants to get back to international driving as soon as possible.
Chinnick's release was secured last week when the Roman Catholic charity Felicitas paid a £4,000 fine and his air fare home(CM 9-15 January). He was jailed in 1992 after heroin was found in his vehicle but has always protested his innocence.
He says: "I've been easing my way back into life over the past
week but I want to get back inw continental haulage. I don't want to do UK work and it wouldn't bother me at all if I went back to Turkey. What happened to me could have happened to anybody in any countrY."
Chinnick flew home last Wednesday to be met by his fiancee Danneke Neale who, with Euro MP Edward McMillan Scott, led the campaign to free him.
"It's great to be home," says Chinnick, "but it's taking me some time to get used to the new prices—cigarettes are so expensive now!"