British ISIS hostage Alan Henning was certain he would be freed and would laugh and joke with his fellow captors, it has emerged.
A fellow hostage today told how the 47-year-old aid worker would jokingly complain about the food and laugh about his snoring.
Seif al-Idlibi told the Telegraph: "Alan didn't like the prison food they gave us. He joked that people can eat whatever they like in a British prison.
"He didn't understand who his captors were and he was convinced he would be released soon."
Mr Henning was instead killed by ISIS militants in a video posted online on Friday.
Seif also said Mr Henning showed no fear when he was captured and smiled as he said: “I’m here to help the children of Syria. I have done nothing wrong.”
Seif, a Syrian opposition activist, was captured in December last year by ISIS in the town of Ad Dana, northern Syria.
While he was in jail, ISIS suddenly brought in a British aid worker.
He said; “At around 6 pm/ 7 pm, I cannot remember the date, they brought in a Brit. They said, take this infidel and put him inside. Khattab the Iraqi, the prison guard told us.
“Khattab threw him in the room and said take him he is an infidel. He entered, sat down. We started talking to him, asked about his name.
“He said his name is Alan. Where are you from? He said from Manchester, Britain. We asked him what his job was. He answered he was a salesman who drove around with his car selling goods.
“He told is that he had been doing extra work to save some money and buy food and milk to the children of Syria”
Seif said he was in a cell with Alan for 13 hours.
He added: “He had a smile on his face always. He wasn’t scared at all. Maybe he didn’t know who ISIS was
“We asked him why aren’t you scared? Alan replied I am here to help children of Syria. I have done nothing wrong.
“During that night ISIS was on maximum alert. We went to sleep; all the walkie-talkies were on. They were on maximum alert as if they captured Bashar Al Assad. Or as if they liberated the entire world. All this because of Henning’s presence.”
ISIS then moved Alan to their stronghold Raqqa.
Seif said: “When he put his stuff on the ground, he said goodbye. He looked back at us in the cell, he cried and left. He thought he was leaving home.
“I will read the “Fatiha” (Muslim prayer read for the dead.) What else can I do? He sacrificed his life for the kids of Syria. His children became now orphans because of Syria’s orphans.”
