By Richard Shears and Martin Robinson PUBLISHED: 01:04 EST, 13 June 2013 | UPDATED: 12:36 EST, 13 June 2013 A British oil worker who spent a terrifying 48 hour ordeal at the hands of kidnappers in Indonesia, fought back the tears as he told how his captors let him go because his Indonesian wife could not afford their £300,000 ransom demand. Engineer Malcolm Primrose, 61, who was found yesterday in a palm oil plantation, said he had feared he was never going to see his wife and family again. 'Excuse me if I am a little bit emotional,' Mr Primrose as he sat with his wife Nurasiah at the police station in Parsi Putih village in the northern province of East Aceh.
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Malcolm Primrose was being driven to a work site in Aceh, Indonesia
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He was stopped by a group of at least 6 armed men who then kidnapped him
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Group later contacted Mr Primrose's family demanding £320,000
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Police say that no ransom was paid and Mr Primrose was found in plantation
'We would like to place on record our warm thanks for the support we have received from the Indonesian authorities, as well as from the Governor of @placeholder and his staff, the Chief of Aceh police and his team, and the many others who have worked so hard to secure his release.'