British man held hostage for eight days in Italy is freed by police

25-year-old tourist was found handcuffed in an apartment after parents raised alarm with National Crime Agency

Italian police have freed a 25-year-old British man who was found barefooted and handcuffed in the room of an apartment where he had been held hostage for eight days.

The man from London, whose name has not yet been released, had been on holiday in Italy when he was allegedly kidnapped by a group of four people and held captive in Monte San Giusto, a town in Macerata province in the central Marche region.