28 March 1986
✸Leigh Douglas and Philip Padfield kidnapped
Beirut & suburbs#Western hostages 1982–1991
PartiesLibya
On 28 March 1986 the Britons Leigh Douglas (a lecturer at the American University) and Philip Padfield (director of a language centre) were kidnapped in West Beirut; their bodies were found with Kilburn's on 17 April after the American raid on Libya.