The subject of this website is an autobiographical account by a British citizen, who at the age of 45 moved his business interests to St Kitts, a member of the British Commonwealth, and invested his life’s accrual in a Plantation Inn there.  He was dedicated and he worked hard. The Inn prospered and he decided to purchase a second Inn. During the purchase transaction of the second Inn, the St Kitts lawyer handling the conveyance stole $3.05 million US dollars of the purchase funds placed in his law firm’s account.

However, this was only the beginning of the nightmare. Powerful friends of the then Prime Minister, coveted the properties and business which the man had built up. The man was predated by agents of the government, including an American con-man. He was then pressed by the Prime Minister and his friends to sell out to them. Being committed to his endeavor, he politely declined the offer of a ‘buy out’ by these powerful people and he opposed the American con-man in court.  Within weeks he was framed by the St Kitts police for a murder that he could not possibly have committed. He was thrown into jail and held captive for almost four years without trial.

He was, by far, the longest serving British citizen in jail without trial. However, he discovered then that the British Foreign Office were actually powerless to assist, and that the term Commonwealth, in reality, is a misnomer.  Somehow, he survived the conditions and the years of hell in the notorious Basseterre jail. He was twice, and often three times, as old as the other prisoners around him. He was not tough, but he stubbornly held on to life. He kept a daily journal, which is now the basis of his fight for recompense for his losses and the abuse by St Kitts of his Constitutional Rights. He has received no apology from St Kitts, no offer of settlement, and he is left physically and emotionally scarred by the attack on his very existence.

But for, his tenacious spirit, he would not still be alive. But for, five true friends he would be destitute now. He and those few friends are progressing the collection of a shameful Constitutional debt owed to him, by St Kitts. Currently St Kitts is trying to usurp its responsibility. The account that follows contains the facts of the matter. 

The man’s name is Kevin Andrew Horstwood.