Sentence examples for before the kidnapping from inspiring English sources

The arrests were made five days before the kidnapping.

Mr Reinhart's accusers point out that he was in contact with the guerrillas before the kidnapping.

About a month before the kidnapping, Williams testified, she'd had a miscarriage.

He said his son had noticed people following him in the days before the kidnapping.

He cited the seven-minute conversation Hamza had with Hassan the night before the kidnapping.

"In the period before the kidnapping, we felt no threat," he said.

Sheikh Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, from Iraq's leading Sunni cleric organisation, told reporters in Baghdad that he received a visit from Torretta and Pari the day before the kidnap.

The pair seemed barely civil before the kidnap: Maja rearranging a school meeting at short notice so her former husband would be forced into dropping work to get there.

On Friday Amnesty International claimed Nigerian commanders were warned before the kidnap that armed men were assembling near Chibok, but the military were unable to raise enough troops to respond.

Are there any signs to watch out for? "People have told me that, on reflection they had noticed some suspicious activity, such as a member of staff acting oddly immediately before the kidnap, but it's hard to make those connections.

But guilty or not, Hamas has behaved badly before and after the kidnapping.