I Now Sleep Holding On To Matt's Sweatshirt'

Last week, the world watched in horror as Daniela Tejada, 27, pleaded for the Foreign Office to help free her husband, Matthew Hedges, after he was sentenced to life in prison for spying in the United Arab Emirates.

- Anna Silverman

He and Daniela have denied the allegations, saying he was in the country to research his PhD, but prosecutors insist Matthew confessed. The sentence was announced after a five-minute hearing where he wasn’t represented by a lawyer. Matthew, 31, a PhD candidate at Durham University, was arrested by UAE officials at Dubai airport in May and held in solitary confinement before being released on bail last month. Daniela accused the Foreign Office of failing her husband by putting UK interests above his right to freedom. But, after a meeting with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt last Thursday, she said she felt reassured Hunt was ‘doing everything in his power to get Matt free’. She speaks to Grazia…