CHARITY worker Ian Stillman - who was freed from an Indian jail a year ago this week - is writing his life story.

Ian's father, Roy, who lives in Dringhouses, York, said Ian had been working on his memoirs for some time and it might be another six months before he had finished.

But he hoped eventually to find a publisher for the work.

Ian, who is deaf and also an amputee, was convicted of possessing cannabis after the taxi in which he was travelling in India was stopped and searched by police in 1990.

He strenuously denied the charge, but was jailed for a decade after a trial which Fair Trials Abroad branded as the "worst miscarriage of justice" it had ever seen.

The Evening Press backed a campaign for his release and he was freed last December on health grounds.

Mr Stillman revealed that Ian had been suffering from the psychological impact of his ordeal. "He has been experiencing a sort of post-traumatic depression," he said. He has been wanting to be on his own away from everybody, although he is working his way out of that now."

He said Ian's physical health had greatly improved. But he was still suffering problems relating to the amputation of his leg, having not yet been fitted with a new artificial leg to the standard he wanted.

Updated: 11:43 Wednesday, December 10, 2003