The Brit condemned to Castro's dungeon. British architect Stephen Purvis (pictured) spent 1. Cuban jail after being accused of spying British architect Stephen Purvis moved his wife and four children to Cuba to escape their humdrum middle- class life in London.

For 1. 5 years their adventure paid off – until 2. Stephen, then 5. 1, was arrested and accused of spying for the Americans. It was the beginning of a 1. This is a standard cell in Villa Marista, the state security interrogation centre. It’s a dungeon I will have to share with three other people for months, even years.

Four people in a tiny concrete box in a country where the summer temperature is 4. The washing and toilet facilities are a 3ft- square sunken trough by the cell door. These dungeons were built to KGB technical specifications. We are reduced to animals in a zoo for enemies of the state.

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When I first came to Cuba in 1. There was no food. The whole country felt and smelt like a pair of tramp’s trousers. To save his wonky world, President Fidel Castro (who handed power to his brother Raul in 2. Pandora’s box of tourism and allowing direct foreign investment. Which is where I came in with two left feet and our life savings to invest. My wife Sarah and I, with our four children, went to Cuba because we saw an opportunity to escape our conventional, suburban middle- class lives to have the kind of family experience you cannot buy.

It was work that first took us there. I had been introduced to a client who needed an architect – and decided to stay. For years, while I helped build multi- million- pound projects like the golf and real estate development Bellomonte in Playas del Este Havana, we lived the dream. But then the rules changed. Foreigners could no longer rent private houses so we had to move to a posh suburb with diplomats and other big cheese foreigners.

Castro’s regime began a purge on the same people who had been invited in to help build the economy. The company I worked for and my boss were caught up in something far bigger than me. When they come for you, its mostly at your workplace or they grab you off the street like the Gestapo. It’s what happened to my boss: they came and took him away, provisionally charged with revelations of state secrets and corruption. I should have gone to the airport and taken the first flight out, but I refused to run away.

I wasn’t a crook. Five months later, they came for me. It was a morning like any other.

I’d just got up when there was some banging of car doors outside, the front door opened and a man with a red moustache walked in and introduced himself as Teniente Colonel Ivan of State Security. This was my boss’s interrogator. It had happened. Now here I am in Castro’s private zoo. You are prisoner 2.

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At random times a disembodied voice shouts: . It has a plastic chair bolted to the floor set back from a simple table. The air- conditioning is on full blast and the contrast with the cell is horrible. Within 3. 0 minutes, the sweat has chilled and I am trying to control my shivering. Cult Movie Clips Alex Of Venice (2015).

Stephen was locked up with four people in a tiny concrete box in a country where the summer temperature is 4. Pictured: A guard watching prisoners in a cell at Combinado del Este.

Ivan’s moods vary. Sometimes he is really aggressive, shouting and banging the table while making all sorts of threats. Other times he makes jokes and gives the appearance of being friendly.

During one session, they show me a handful of photographs of people taken at immigration. Ivan’s mood darkens. I don’t have any.’ He says: . You have no idea how serious this is.’ And so it goes on and on, day in, day out, part of the never- ending routine of jail. At 6. 3. 0am the cell hole bangs open and the nurse passes through pills. My cellmates are all afflicted with a variety of illnesses, real and imagined. At 7am, a 5. 0g bread roll spread with some kind of meat paste or margarine is passed in, sometimes with a powdered soft drink that we all think has bromide in it.

At 1. 1. 3. 0 there is a metal tray with some rice or beans, a tinned sardine or a tiny bit of gristly pork with some shredded cabbage or pickled vegetable. YARDIES MOVED TO TEARS WATCHING MAMMA MIAEven in this hell hole there are lighter moments. In a tatty concrete hut that looks as if it was built by children from giant play blocks, 5. The Abba film Mamma Mia!

One lesson of the past months is that life can be strange but people, despite appearances, can be comfortingly similar. At 5. 3. 0pm the same again. The nurse returns at 7. Sometimes we get another bread roll at about 9pm. From 1. 0pm we drift in and out of consciousness to wake exhausted at 6am to a blast of the national anthem.

For my wife, the anxiety is just as tough. After two weeks of exhaustion- induced panic back at our apartment, she is eventually hospitalised for treatment. My mother, who took the first flight from London after my arrest, takes custody of the kids, Adam, 1. Oscar, 1. 5, Poppy, 1. Rosy, 1. 2. They are so brave when they come to visit and of course I try to be brave for them. I enter with hands behind me and head down and give them my most reassuring smile. They try to hold back the tears until after I have gone, and generally they make a better job of it than their dad does.

I think part of it is because they don’t want to give the guard, who sits in the corner chipping in with stupid comments and enjoying his power over us, the pleasure of seeing the family in such distress. And they treat him with a fierce and cold politeness. I decide that when school breaks up they will all return home to London and start a new life without me. I have explained that it could be two weeks, two months, two years or 2.

I am free. In Villa Marista, there is on average one proper suicide attempt a month. Two out of three inmates go mad. Regularly I would hear someone start screaming and raving, followed by the guards’ boots clattering past and then the sounds of some poor soul being dragged off to the doctor for sedation. I lose more than 3st in weight in a few months – that’s 1. My mum is an absolute marvel. She is orchestrating what passes for a defence in Cuba with my lawyer, and most importantly she is making my interrogator Ivan curse the day he ever decided to arrest me on these ridiculous charges. In Villa Marista, there is on average one proper suicide attempt a month .

I insist that he has a home- cooked meal once a week and that you let him have dried fruit and the basics to keep his health.’Ivan replies stiffly: . We all eat from the same kitchen, you know.’Mum says: .

And you don’t seem to be losing weight,’ pointedly looking at the food stains on his taut tunic. She is such a contrast to the staff from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. What a bunch of supine, wishy- washy paper tigers they are turning out to be. They don’t want to do anything to rock the fragile boat of diplomacy.

The only person to show spine is the British Ambassador herself. Despite being told by London not to visit me . Ivan drools. After eight months, I am moved to La Condesa, a stalag for foreign criminals, where no Englishman had been held in eight years. My companions are for the most part convicted murderers, drug traffickers, people smugglers, paedophiles, rapists and gangsters. Oh, and four other people like me – foreign businessmen held without formal charge pending trial. When Stephen first came to Cuba in 1.

President Fidel Castro, who handed power to his brother Raul  (pictured) in 2. Pandora’s box of tourism and allowing direct foreign investment. This being Cuba, there exists a system whereby certain prisoners get a monthly visit from women from the village who bring vegetables – and sleep with prisoners for cash. The families of the prisoner wire money to the tart and the prison guards get a kickback. A much- thumbed school exercise book circulates with photographs and telephone numbers of .