UK – Sky News, Aug. 19, 2025
Joe Bennett, the son of Lindsay and Craig Foreman, told Sky News what was “supposed to be the trip of a lifetime… very quickly turned into something of a nightmare”.
The family of a British couple, detained in Iran on espionage charges, says they are “seriously worried” after the pair were moved to the country’s “harshest prisons”.
Lindsay and Craig Foreman were seized in Kerman, in central Iran, in early January while on a round-the-world motorbike trip. Their family say they strongly deny any wrongdoing.
Their son, Joe Bennett, told Sky News the pair, from East Sussex, had been separated from the prison where they were staying together and moved to different jails in the Tehran area.
“Craig’s been moved now to Evin prison… which many people will recognise the name of, renowned as one of the harshest prisons, if not the harshest in Iran.
“It heightened our concerns because… the reports are damning… multiple people to a cell, overcrowding. And that’s for both my mum and Craig. We’re seriously worried for Craig and my mum’s welfare, but Craig more so at the moment.”
