"We just want him back with his daughter": Dad, 39, on holiday is now stuck in 'hellhole' San Pedro prison after dramatic arrest

The family of a man from Greater Manchester who is stuck in a notorious 'hellhole' prison in South America are desperately pleading for help to get him home.

John Henshaw, from Atherton, was backpacking when he was reportedly arrested on a drug trafficking charge at La Paz International Airport in Bolivia on February 9. His family say he was detained for the alleged possession of a 'tiny' amount of cannabis.

The 39-year-old is incarcerated in San Pedro prison in La Paz - which was infamously featured on the TV show Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons. San Pedro is notoriously almost entirely ran by the inmates and merely guarded by police, whose job is to keep the prisoners in, rather than regulate the activities of the prisoners inside.

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John's worried daughter and ex-partner say he has no access to clean water, clean clothes, a consistent source of food or his own cell. He has also told his family that until he has the funds for a bed he is sleeping on the floor nightly, surrounded by up to 30 other prisoners, and is forced to share two toilets with around 120 inmates.

He says he has struggled with various illnesses and weight loss since being inside, including ear infections due to the insects which infest the prison, forcing him to sleep with tissue in his ears. A GoFundMe has been set up to help John with his legal costs and to provide any essentials which can be brought to him in prison, which has raised almost £3,000 so far.

John's ex-partner, Toni Rimmer, and his 15-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn Henshaw, are both worried and just want him home. Toni, who is trying to help with the