The wife of freed lorry driver David Wilson spoke for the first time about the joy of being reunited with her husband.

Delighted Tracey Wilson is enjoying an away-from-it-all break with David after he was released from a nine-week ordeal in a Greek jail.

The couple, and their 21-year-old son Daniel were reunited at the weekend when trucker David, 44, jetted in to Leeds-Bradford Airport after a Greek court granted him bail pending an appeal against his conviction for smuggling illegal immigrants.

Tracey, 42, and Daniel had only been able to see David on one brief visit to the prison in Halkida, north of Athens, last month, but were unable to touch him and had to speak to him by telephone through a glass partition.

The lorry driver from Wyke was sentenced to 11 years in jail and fined £47,000 when he was fast-tracked into court just a day after 19 Iraqi Kurds were found hiding in the back of his wagon as he was about to board a ferry to Italy - and despite telling the authorities he knew nothing about the immigrants.

He now faces returning to Greece in November for the appeal hearing and his haulage business is threatened with bankruptcy, with his lorry impounded by the Greek authorities.

But yesterday, Tracey's only thoughts were about enjoying having her husband back by her side.

Speaking from their secret hideaway she said: "We are having a few days away just to spend some time together - I haven't seen him for so long.

"It is somewhere nice but I'd rather not say where because we just need some peace after all that has happened.

"It is just fantastic to have him back with us.''

She continued: "The moment when we were reunited was brilliant.

''I couldn't believe it. It was very tearful but really nice.

"It is all a bit of a blur, I can't even remember what we said to each other, but it was a wonderful moment."

Tracey and David's family and friends launched a Free Willy Campaign and raised the money for his bail after his arrest at the port of Patras on March 19.