**Freed British hostage Peter Moore has arrived back in the UK following his two-and-a-half year kidnap ordeal.**The 36-year-old, from Lincoln, touched down at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire shortly after 1700 GMT.
Mr Moore, a computer expert who was taken hostage by militants posing as police in Baghdad in May 2007, was released on Wednesday.
Three of the four bodyguards he was captured with in Iraq have been killed. The fourth man is thought to be dead.
Mr Moore’s return to the UK was veiled in secrecy following a request for privacy from his family.
BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir said Mr Moore’s family wanted a “period of decompression” for him to “ease gently back into public life”.
Mr Moore spent New Year’s Eve at the embassy in Baghdad “quietly”, our correspondent said.
Following his release, Mr Moore has said he was subjected to “rough treatment” while in captivity but that he had been treated well in the final six months.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said Mr Moore had told his family that from June he had effectively been placed under house arrest, with en suite facilities, access to satellite TV, a laptop - though not online - and a Playstation.