British PM vows to ‘hunt down’ Alan Henning’s murderers

David Cameron has promised to hunt down the terrorist murderers of the aid worker Alan Henning after jihadists posted video of him being beheaded online. The Prime Minister said the murder was “brutal” and revealed “just how barbaric and repulsive these terrorists are”. A video lasting one minute and 11 seconds and titled “Another Message To America And It’s Allies” [sic] was posted on YouTube on Friday evening.

The fact that he was taken hostage when trying to help others and now murdered demonstrates that there are no limits to the depravity of these ISIL terrorists. We will do all we can to hunt down these murderers and bring them to justice.

David Cameron, British Prime Minister

The masked killer, who speaks with a British accent and is believed to be the man responsible for previous beheadings, makes a direct statement to Mr Cameron: “The blood of David Haines was on your hands, Cameron. Alan Henning will also be slaughtered, but his blood is on the hands of the British Parliament.” At the end of the video another hostage – a former US soldier – is paraded in front of the cameras. The hostage is believed to be Peter Edward Kassig who had returned to the region as a charity worker, after serving in Iraq in 2007.

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