SAFARIS, WITCHCRAFT AND MURDER

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Synopsis

A entire year of David Simpson’s life read like a Boy’s Own adventure.

David was living the dream as a pilot for a luxury safari company in the Central African Republic when he stumbled across a brutal massacre committed by notorious Warlord Joseph Kony. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Simpson was himself accused of murder and witchcraft, shot at by an angry lynch mob and thrown into one of Africa’s worst jails.

Facing a death sentence, he then found himself trapped in a huge prison riot, stripped naked and beaten, while the jail was burned to the ground. David Simpson has decided to tell his incredible story for the first time…

  • Channel 4
  • November 2013