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A government source said the review had no completion date, and ministers had not set a target for how many quangos, or quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations, they wanted to abolish.

"On the release day, they treated us brutally. They tightened the handcuffs and when they wanted to make us move they put our hands above our heads and pulled us," Mr Mushtaha said.

"I just wanted to figure out my next move and the basketball thing just fell," he said.

"I want this to happen just as much as I wanted to be world champion," he said.

"I think people really bought the relationship between me and Hannah and really wanted us to work."