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Wife of hostage Alan Henning urges IS captors to release him

Barbara Henning, the wife of British hostage Alan Henning, has urged his Islamic State captors to "please release him, we need him back home".

The 47-year-old aid worker was captured by militants in Syria last year and has been threatened with death by his Islamic State captors.

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Alan Henning's wife pleads with IS to free him

The wife of the British hostage Alan Henning has today pleaded with his captors to free her husband. In a message to the Islamic State terror group, Barbara Henning describes him as "a peaceful, selfless man" whose purpose in taking an aid convoy to Syria was "a sheer act of compassion."

A new video obtained by ITV News shows the former taxi driver delivering aid on Christmas day, Ronke Phillips reports.

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