The UK will take “whatever steps are necessary” to keep safe after a video showing the killing of hostage David Haines was issued by Islamic State militants, the prime minister has said.
David Cameron said the UK would “hunt down” the killers of the aid worker, whom he called a “British hero”.
He said the “menace” of IS had to be destroyed in a “calm, deliberate” way.
In the video, IS also threatened to kill a second Briton, who has been named as aid worker Alan Henning, 47.
Mr Haines was seized in Syria in 2013. He was being held by Islamic State militants who had already killed two US captives, and a video of his death came shortly after his family appealed to his captors to make contact with them.
Alan Henning
IS has now threatened to kill another hostage, Alan Henning
Born in Holderness, East Yorkshire, Mr Haines went to school in Perth and had been living in Croatia with his second wife, who is Croatian, and their four-year-old daughter. His parents live in Ayr.
The video of the 44-year-old’s beheading was released on Saturday night.
A masked man who appears to have a British accent was pictured beside Mr Haines holding a knife.
Speaking after a meeting of the UK emergency committee Cobra, Mr Cameron said of IS, also known as Isil and Isis, “they are not Muslims, they are monsters”.
“We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes.”
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Face the truth: their name is Islamic, there source of authority is the Koran, their practices of beheading people is exactly what Mohammed was doing in his lifetime, yet ISIS are not Muslims?. Sorry Mr Cameron,,, they may be monsters but they are Muslims....And you are nurturing many of them in UK.
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