Speaker

Speech

Paul Chandler

This is our 27th day in captivity.  So far, we have been provided with adequate food and water and facilities. And so, we are unharmed and in reasonable physical health.  Mentally, we are under great stress and threatened.  Our kidnappers are losing patience.  They are concerned that there has been no response at all to their demands for money.  We ask the government and people of Britain and our families to do whatever you can to at least open negotiations with these people about money, so that perhaps our lives can be bought back.  We have been threatened that there is a terrorist gang, at large in the country, looking for us.  We are also concerned that these people will lose patience and will not feed us.  And I have no doubt that they will not hesitate to kill us, perhaps within a week or so of now, if there is no response.  So please, somebody get in touch, otherwise we just sleepwalk to a tragic ending.

Cameraman

Is there a message you are sending for your government and the English people and your family?

Rachel Chandler

We are under threat and we are told that we will not be fed and given water, so we are very concerned about the future.  Our captors are very impatient now, that nobody has been in touch to enter into negotiations.  So we ask the government and the people of Britain and our family to do whatever they can to enter into negotiations with these people, to buy back our lives.  As Paul has said, we are told that there is a terrorist cell, or a fanatic cell, that are trying, searching for us, and we are also feeling very much under threat now with these people themselves, won’t hesitate to take our lives.