Article: OUR DEADLY IDYLL; The Gaskin family left suburbia for a tropical dream.. but after a year of bliss they were kidnapped by masked gunmen demanding $1m ransom. Here they tell of their dramatic escape from danger.(News)

Byline: BARRY WIGMORE and NIGEL BLUNDELL

IT was the kind of mad tropical dream that keeps people going through a long, bleak British winter.

Sell everything...leave all your troubles behind...buy a palm-fringed Caribbean island where the sand is silver and the sea a deep shade of turquoise.

Jayne and Philip Gaskin thought they had made the dream come true when they sold their home in England and paid pounds 170,000 for an island paradise off the coast of Nicaragua.

For just over a year the Gaskins and their three children lived a ...

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