Killer must be caught and tried, says widow of hostage
THE grieving wife of a Scottish hostage beheaded by Mohammed Emwazi called for the killer to be captured and brought to justice.
Dragana Haines, the widow of Perth aid worker David Haines, 44, murdered last September, said she wanted the jihadist taken alive to deny him an ‘honourable death’ in action.
But, incredibly, the mother of the first hostage decapitated on film by Islamic State, said she had forgiven Emwazi.
Diane Foley, whose son James, 40, a US journalist, died last August said: ‘It saddens me – his continued hatred. He felt wronged, now we hate him – now that just prolongs the hatred. We need to end it. As a mum, I forgive him.’
Mrs Haines, who lives near Zagreb, Croatia, said the identification of Emwazi had reopened the wounds caused by her husband’s death.
She said: ‘I have been hoping that this man will be identified and eventually caught, but it’s difficult to be reminded of it all again.
‘I hope he will be caught alive. If he gets killed in action, it will be an honourable death for him, and that is the last thing I would want for him. He needs to be put to jus- tice.’ But Mr Haines’s daughter Bethany, 17, of Perthshire, said her family would only ‘feel closure and relief once there’s a bullet between his [Emwazi’s] eyes’.
The family of Steven Sotloff, 31, a US journalist beheaded in Sep- tember, said they relished the prospect of the murderer’s capture. They said: ‘We want to watch him be prosecuted and convicted in an American court of law and then spend the rest of his days in a super-max prison in isolation.’