A retired British geologist who was jailed in Iraq earlier this year after being accused of taking shards of pottery from an archaeological site has thanked campaigners who helped win his freedom.
Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested in March at Baghdad Airport after security staff found items in luggage belonging to him and a German tourist, Volker Waldmann.
The pair had been on an organised geology and archaeology trip to Eridu, an ancient Sumerian city and a UNESCO heritage site in southern Iraq.
Fitton admitted to collecting stones and pieces of pottery as souvenirs but insisted he had not acted with any criminal intent….