Homes and Property | Home PageBriton 'killed by Zimbabwe rebels'Alexa Baracaia|Evening Standard13 April 2012A British businessman is reported to have been kidnapped and murdered by rebels in Zimbabwe who chained him to a tree and forced him to drink battery acid.Phillip Laing, 51, was captured along with eight colleagues at the tea estate where he lived and worked.His two daughters, visiting from the UK, were left alone and terrified in the house.MORE ABOUTDrinksTea