The daughter of British aid worker Alan Henning, who was beheaded by ISIS last year, has revealed that she found out about her father's death after seeing the gruesome execution pictures on Instagram.
Lucy Henning, 18, still feels traumatized about her father's murder last year after he was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State.
The
47-year-old taxi driver, from Salford, had gone to Syria to help
deliver aid to refugees and orphans in the war-torn country. But he was
kidnapped after going over the border from Turkey in December 2013 and
held hostage by ISIS for 10 months.
In
an incredible coincidence the news comes the day after her father's
executioner, Jihadi John, whose real name is Mohammed Emwazi, is
believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Syria.
US sources said the ISIS butcher was 'evaporated' by a missile as he climbed into a vehicle after leaving a building in Raqqa.
Pentagon officials say they are '99 per cent' sure the air strike has killed the world's most wanted man.
Despite
worldwide appeals for Mr Henning's release, the terror group instead
posted a video online in October last year, of the Briton kneeling in an
orange jump-suit in the desert before being beheaded.
Miss
Henning told The Jeremy Kyle Show, which will be broadcast today: 'I
remember thinking we have had a few days, no news, it's looking good. We
thought they might actually let him go.
'Then
I remember I was just laying in bed on Instagram and I just saw the
final picture. It was the final picture, after the execution.
'You
just kind of go through in your head, like whenever I used to get upset
about it, I used to torture myself thinking, "You don't know what he's
going through," so how can you sit there crying.
'So
I used to just shout at myself, you can't cry, you can't be upset,
think about what he's going through, think about what everybody else is
going through.'
Miss Henning is still trying to come to terms with her father's brutal murder at the hands of ISIS.
She
added: 'I try not to think about them. I think I'm still numb. I just
try and get everyone to remember like, the kids that are still there,
when people say, "Oh you've lost your dad," Yeah I know but there's kids
there that's lost, lose all their family in one day and they are stuck
there on their own.'
Miss
Henning said she is looking to do voluntary work in Africa and hopes to
one day make a visit to the region in memory of her father.
She
added: 'There's an academy that's been set up in my dad's name, the
Alan Henning Academy, for Syrian children, just on the Turkey side, and
it's schooling around 400 pupils at the moment, getting them the
education they need, so I would like to go and visit,' she added.
