I kidnapped my daughter's killer - it was the only way I could get justice

For three long decades Andre Bamberski waged a tireless campaign to win justice for the daughter he was sure had been murdered. Pretty, sports-mad Kalinka, 14, was found dead in suspicious circumstances in 1982.
Her mum's new husband, a German doctor, had given her an injectionat their lakeside home in Bavaria.
But a bungled investigation, disputed post mortem and conflicting medical evidence left Andre convinced she had been drugged, raped and murdered by the stepfather, suave cardiologist Dr Dieter Krombach.
This was the start of an epic quest which saw French accountant Andre, now 76, take on police, prosecutors and the European Court of Justice in a bid to get Krombach extradited to France and face trial.
It took over his life and cost him a fortune. And when all official channels finally failed, Andre, a quietly-spoken and devout Roman Catholic, decided to take the law into his own hands.
In a plot worthy of any action movie, the grey-haired dad hired two men to kidnap Krombachfrom Germany and take him across the border into France.
He was then dumped – bound, gagged and bleeding – outside a prosecutor's office in the town of Mulhouse, where police found him after a phone tip off from a mysterious Russian – in fact Andre putting on an accent.
The desperate ploy worked. In 2011, Krombach, 75, was convicted and jailed for 15 years for administering the injection which killed his stepdaughter.
But the kidnappers – Kosovan Anton Krasniqi and Kacha Bablovani from Georgia – were caught and jailed too, and found to be acting on the orders of Andre Bamberski.
After 30 years fighting for justice for his daughter, he didn't care if he went to jail as long as her killer was locked up too.
On Wednesday of this week he was finally convicted of ordering the kidnap. But in one final extraordinary twist, he escaped jail and was given just a one year suspended sentence.
The prosecutor even praised Andre, now something of a French folk hero, for his "courage and perseverance".
The saga began in July 1982 when Andre's ex-wife Daniele rang to break the news that Kalinka, their bubbly blue-eyed blonde daughter who loved windsurfing and ice-skating, had been found dead in bed by Krombach.
The doctor told investigators that the evening before he had injected her with iron and cobalt to treat anaemia and given her a sleeping tablet.
But a post mortem later found evidence that the teenager had been raped and had choked on her own vomit while she was unconscious.
Despite this, Krombach, a former diplomat with friends in high places, was never formally interviewed. German ­prosecutors decided Kalinka's death was an accident and closed the case.
Andre, whose son Nicolas had also lived with Krombach, fought to get it reopened. When that failed he travelled to Germany and began delivering leaflets to Krombach's neighbours accusing him of raping and murdering his daughter.
Krombach sued for defamation and was awarded damages of £150,000 – which Andre never paid.
Attempts to get Krombach extradited to France failed but Andre began building up evidence about errors in the autopsy and investigation. He admits there were times when he felt like giving up, but explained: "It was not possible to stop because every day I had more proof."
In the meantime his ex-wife divorced Krombach in 1989. Then in 1995 a French court decided to try him in his absence. He was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. But he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which later quashed the conviction.