After living through the recent war in Iran, the pair, from East Sussex, are now facing the painful reality of a 10-year prison sentence handed down against them in February.
“I just feel that we’re wasting our lives in here and rotting away,” Craig says. “We are innocent people. We have committed no offence.”
He makes a plea to the government: “Just take action. Speak out. Get us out. It seems to me we’re sitting here like sitting ducks.”
The pair are speaking to the media together, via separate phones, for the first time since their incarceration.
They are being kept in different cells within the same prison. After months of being unable to communicate with others, their son, Joe Bennett, now gets regular phone calls from his mother and step-father.
They are patched through to them from payphones in Evin prison via the Foreign Office, which has described their incarceration as “appalling” and “unjustifiable”.
