Freed hostage delivers final message from tragic Manchester aid worker to his daughters
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Manchester aid worker captured in Ukraine sent a message to his two daughters telling them 'I love you so much' before he tragically died - and it's now been delivered to them in person by a freed hostage he was held and tortured with, reports the Sunday Mirror.
Paul Urey, 45, from Manchester, was captured along with another worker, 22-year-old Dylan Healy, on April 25 at a checkpoint south of the city of Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine.
Mr Urey later died in captivity. Mr Healy, reveals the Sunday Mirror, told Mr Urey's grieving daughters, sisters Courtney and Chelsea: "Your dad loved you and thought about you every day." He has told how he and Mr Urey endured a mock execution and were relentlessly tortured by Russian troops.
The aid workers were ambushed during an aid mission in Ukraine, ordered out of their cars and forced to kneel by the roadside, Mr Healy said.
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