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Article: Trapped in a car boot for ten days, cold, tied up and utterly alone. I thought this is what it would be like in my coffin; EXCLUSIVE: Brave nurse who was abducted, bound, gagged and callously left for dead, speaks for the first time about horror ordeal.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2009
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Byline: Patricia Kane
BOUND, gagged and crammed into the boot of her own car, Magdeline Makola closed her eyes and resigned herself to death. It had been seven days since a man she barely knew had barged into her home, attacked her and subjected her to the horrific abduction ordeal from which there now seemed no escape.
In the cold and silence of a railway station car park in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, thousands of miles from her family in South Africa, the dangerously-ill nurse slipped in and out of consciousness.
'I was actually prepared for death,' says Magdeline, 38. 'I'd made peace with God and accepted whatever plan he had for me.
'I ...