Hunt hopes Briton jailed in Iran can come home

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the return of imprisoned Briton Nazanin Zaghari-ratcliffe to the UK would be the best Christmas present for her and the country.

Mrs Zaghari-ratcliffe, a British-iranian mother who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in April 2016.

The 39-year-old, from Hampstead, north London, was later sentenced to five years in jail after being accused of spying, a charge she vehemently denies.

Her husband Richard Ratcliffe has campaigned for her release.

Highlighting Mr Ratcliffe’s annual campaign to try to get his wife home for her birthday on December 26, Mr Hunt said: “If she could come home, wouldn’t that be the best Christmas present, not just for her but for the whole country?”