Bethany Haines recounts watching video of beheading and looking at alleged IS killer in the eye in court in ITV programme

The daughter of a British aid worker who was murdered by members of an Islamic State terrorist cell has described watching the video of his beheading and looking an alleged IS killer in the eye in court.

David Haines was captured just days after arriving in Syria in 2013 and the following year was beheaded. The killing, which was recorded and posted online, was one of several of western and Japanese captives by the gang of four IS militants nicknamed “the Beatles” by their hostages because of their British accents.

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