THE two British hostages whose bodies were flown home from Iraq last week were shot dead, it was reported yesterday.
A coroner concluded security guards Jason Swindlehurst, a father-of-one from Skelmersdale, and colleague Jason Creswell, from Glasgow, died from gunshot wounds.
The men’s families and those of the other three British hostages who are still missing in Iraq are believed to have been informed.
The bodies of the two men were flown from Baghdad to RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire, last week. The two Jasons were among a group of five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad on May 29, 2007.
A group of 40 armed men wearing police uniforms seized the hostages, including IT consultant Peter Moore, from Lincoln, and two guards at the Iraqi Finance Ministry in the capital.
Mr Moore’s father Graeme, 59, has angrily condemned the Government’s handling of the case, describing Foreign Secretary David Miliband as a “total waste of space”. He described the wait for any news as “torture”.
