Daughter of U.Ok. assist employee beheaded by ISIS reads remaining textual content from him at trial:

The daughter of a murdered British assist employee this week on the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went lacking in war-torn Syria in 2013.

In a Paris courtroom on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, learn out the final textual content message she would ever obtain from her father, David Haines, earlier than ISIS kidnapped him in north Syria at age 42.

Sitting within the dock as she learn had been Frenchmen Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, and Abdelmalek Tanem, 35, on trial for holding 4 French journalists hostage for ISIS in Syria between 2013 and 2014.

They’ve additionally been accused of being amongst those that held Haines hostage, earlier than ISIS beheaded him in a grotesque video launched in September 2014. His stays have by no means been discovered, based on CBS Information companion BBC.

“Hey there darling, hope you might be okay. I am fantastic and dealing away in Turkey. Hope you feel higher now, love Dad,” Haines wrote to his daughter on March 12, 2013, she stated.

“Over the subsequent three weeks, my dad would obtain a barrage of texts and voicemails that he would by no means see or hear,” she informed the courtroom.

She then learn out messages she despatched her father, their tone rising more and more determined.

“Hey Dad, hope you might be having fun with Turkey. I am busy finding out for my exams.

“Hey Dad, name me when you’ll be able to. Love you.

“Hey Dad, are you out within the subject? My first examination went okay I feel. Keep secure.

“Hey Dad, have I aggravated you? If I’ve, I am sorry. Name me. Love you.

“Daddy, I want you. I’ve had an terrible day. Miss you.

“Dad, I am sorry. Telephone me.

“Daddy, I want you.

“Daddy, are you there?

“Daddy, you are scaring me.

“The place are you Daddy?”

She paused, clutching her notes.

“However he wasn’t there. He was being held, being interrogated, waterboarded, overwhelmed, electrocuted, mocked, starved and being mentally tortured,” she stated.

Governments have stated a whole lot of Westerners joined extremist teams together with ISIS in Syria after civil struggle broke out in 2011.

Haines and the French journalists had been additionally at a number of factors held captive by one other ISIS cell they dubbed the “Beatles” due to their British accents.

It was a “Beatles” member, killed in a 2015 drone strike, who beheaded Haines.

The French trial of Nemmouche and Tanem, in addition to a Syrian defendant and two others in absentia as a result of they’re presumed useless, is to proceed till March 21.

Final October, Haines marked 10 years since her father’s dying, saying he wouldn’t need to be remembered as “the person within the orange jumpsuit” however as somebody who cherished his household, the BBC reported.

She described her father as “robust, sort and caring” and stated he would have cherished turning into a grandfather and spending time along with her son.