‘All I can tell you is I have very short time left’ - Bigley’s final words

A VIDEOTAPE of the beheading of British hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared yesterday on an Islamist website, showing the civil engineer pleading that he wanted “to live a simple life” moments before he was decapitated.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2004 - 01:00

Jim Caldwell

The tape appeared two days after Mr Bigley’s family said it had proof that the 62-year-old civil engineer from Liverpool was dead.

The tape showed Mr Bigley, dressed in an orange prison-style jump suit and seated in front of seven armed, hooded men.

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