I shook hands with the man who nearly killed me

Life Changing by BBC

Dec 3, 202528:33Society & Culture

It was a summer evening in 2014, when four men barged into Paul Kohler’s family home and began a savage assault on him. They believed erroneously that he had a large amount of money hidden there. The speed of the police...

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