Hundreds attend memorial service for UK hostage Henning
15 Oct 2014 4:24 AM IST
Friends and family, including his widow Barbara and teenage children Adam and Lucy, attended the ceremony at the Muslim Heritage Centre in Manchester, northwest England.
The 47-year-old taxi driver had travelled to Syria to help Muslim colleagues deliver aid in a convoy.
He was kidnapped shortly after crossing the border and his murder was claimed by the IS group in a graphic video released on October 3.
Majid Freeman, from the English city of Leicester, travelled to Syria with Henning on two aid convoys, including the December trip on which he was captured.‘He went to Syria to help at a time when the whole international community had abandoned them,’ Freeman told well-wishers at the memorial service. He recalled an incident when Henning had declined to join others on the convoy in paying for a hotel for the night, instead sleeping in an ambulance.
The 47-year-old taxi driver had travelled to Syria to help Muslim colleagues deliver aid in a convoy.
He was kidnapped shortly after crossing the border and his murder was claimed by the IS group in a graphic video released on October 3.
Majid Freeman, from the English city of Leicester, travelled to Syria with Henning on two aid convoys, including the December trip on which he was captured.‘He went to Syria to help at a time when the whole international community had abandoned them,’ Freeman told well-wishers at the memorial service. He recalled an incident when Henning had declined to join others on the convoy in paying for a hotel for the night, instead sleeping in an ambulance.
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