tortured

That makes him the standard superhero with a tortured origin story, but a more down-to-earth version.

On 28 August, her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped the boy at gunpoint, tortured him and threw his battered body into a river.

But he said he still fears being detained by ICE, and he worries that the US values he believed in, and was tortured for, might be eroded.

The memorial tree was planted 14 years ago to honour Ilan Halimi, who was tortured and murdered by a Paris gang in 2006, sparking widespread shock and outrage at the time.

This was so different from the tortured courtship with my ex.