The daughter of Scottish aid worker David Haines, who was beheaded by Isis terrorists, is planning a mission to Syria to bring back his remains.
As the 10th anniversary of his murder approaches, Bethany Haines has revealed that she will never admit defeat in the battle to return David to Scotland.
She told the Daily Record: ‘The drive to find my dad will never stop as long as I live.’ Her quest is based on detailed witness testimonies and collaborations with other victims’ families.
Bethany, who was just 17 when her dad’s gruesome death was beamed to the world in a sick Isis video, says that watching the video was the worst moment of her life.
But she believes it is powering her resolve to fulfil a debt she believes she owes to her father. She said: ‘We are getting closer, and we are getting more and more information and there are very promising leads we can follow.
‘It is being checked and verified and we are confident in a couple of places, so it is just about kind of being able to do boots-on-the-ground stuff.
‘The aim now is to arrange support in Syria for actual physical searching, with spade and shovel if need be, and with the right people to help identify remains, in terms of DNA etcetera.’
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The political landscape has been thrown into chaos by the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
Bethany said: ‘The situation in Gaza has made travel impossible but I’m speaking to people who I believe can make things happen with the logistics of going into Syria and providing security for the people that are involved in it. It is something that will be done, I hope, in the near future.’
She added: ‘We are confident in the information we’ve been given by a number of sources. It’s not just kind of one person saying, ‘Oh, by the way, X marks the spot.’ It’s been multiple sources this has come from, and we are confident that they are in a certain area.
‘I’m looking at maps, at Google Earth, looking at specific areas that have been detailed via sources, and homing in to see any change in the way that things look. I’m looking for any disturbance in the earth in a specific area, which could imply a possible mass grave.’
