Dead hostages flown home
THE bodies of Iraq hostages Jason Swindlehurst and Jason Creswell were flown home from Baghdad by the RAF yesterday.
Their relatives were present when the flight arrived at RAF Lyneham at 5:55am.
The bodies of the two men, both security guards, were handed over to Iraqi authorities last weekend. Three other hostages remain missing.
Mr Creswell, originally from Glasgow, and Mr Swindlehurst, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, were among a group of five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad on 29 May, 2007.
A group of 40 armed men wearing police uniforms seized the hostages, including IT consultant Peter Moore, from Lincoln, and two guards identified only as Alan from Scotland and Alec from South Wales, at the Iraqi Finance Ministry.
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