Film of Bigley killing on extremist website

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

The nearly five-minute-long 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 body has not been found.