ISIL Claims Beheading of British Hostage

The Foreign Office has said it is "working urgently to verify" video purporting to show beheading of British hostage David Haines.

The Foreign Office said if true it was another "disgusting murder", and it was offering support to Mr Haines's family.
The aid worker, 44, from Perth, was kidnapped last year in Syria.
Islamic State (IS) militants have already beheaded two US journalists and threatened to kill Mr Haines if US air strikes in Iraq were not halted.
Mr Haines, a father-of-two, was taken hostage in the village of Atmeh, in the Idlib province of Syria, in March 2013.

 

 

Group releases video of death of David Haines, weeks after killing American hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

The Islamic State group has released what it claims to be the death of British hostage David Haines.
Stills of the video, released on the internet on late on Saturday, shows the Haines, 44, being held in the desert by a masked man. He had been held hostage in Syria since being abducted by the group last year.
His death comes after the group murdered James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both American journalists, in a similar manner.
The masked man in the latest video states Haines was killed because the UK had promised to arm Kurdish peshmerga fighters in Iraq against the Islmaci State fighters.
"This British man has to pay the price for your promise, Cameron, to arm the Peshmerga against the Islamic State."