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Family of British hostage pleads for release
September 24, 2014
The wife of a British taxi driver held by Islamic State jihadists has pleaded for his release, saying she had received a recording of him begging for his life.
Alan Henning, a 47-year-old Briton who volunteered to help drive an aid convoy to Syria for Muslim charity Aid4Syria, was kidnapped 10 months ago.
"An audio file of Alan pleading for his life has just been received by me," his wife Barbara said in a statement released yesterday through Britain's Foreign Office.