Paul Bean, 48, from Wakefield, flew back to England in the early hours of Sunday.

The businessman, who is managing director of Bradford-based design agency Sun Branding Solutions, was pictured being sensationally rescued from the Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai at the height of the siege.

It later emerged he had called his wife from underneath a table as bullets whizzed by his head, and lay still in the dark for seven hours waiting for the carnage to finish.

Speaking from the family home on Sunday night, Mr Bean's wife Linda said: "We are absolutely delighted and so relieved to have him back.
"We are so grateful to all family and friends who have supported us through this.

"Paul is still getting over it and doesn't feel ready to talk about it yet but he did say that the Indian people have been absolutely tremendous."

Mr Bean was photographed climbing out of a window on to a ladder at the five-star hotel as last week's terror attacks raged around him.

Mrs Bean, 47, had earlier told how her husband of 27 years rang her just after the massacre unfolded but talked in whispered tones.

She and the couple's children Leanne, 24, and Richard, 20, faced an agonising 14-and-a-half hour wait before he confirmed he had escaped.

"He was in total shock because it was chaotic," Mrs Bean said.
"He had been rescued after hiding flat on his front under a table.

"He told us it had all kicked off about 9pm Mumbai time when he was in the restaurant.

"People started throwing hand grenades down the stairwells, shattering the glass doors in the restaurant.

"He had hidden there until rescuers put up a ladder to the restaurant window and he climbed out."