“Over the next three weeks, my dad would receive a barrage of texts and voicemails that he would never see or hear,” she told the court.She then read out messages she sent her father, their tone growing increasingly desperate.
“Hey Dad, hope you are enjoying Turkey. I’m busy studying for my exams.”
“Hey Dad, call me when you can. Love you.”
“Hey Dad, are you out in the field? My first exam went okay I think. Stay safe.”
“Hey Dad, have I annoyed you? If I have, I’m sorry. Call me. Love you.”
“Daddy, I need you. I’ve had an awful day. Miss you.”
“Dad, I’m sorry. Phone me.”
“Daddy, I need you.”
“Daddy, are you there?”
“Daddy, you’re scaring me.”
“Where are you Daddy?”
She paused, clutching her notes.
“But he wasn’t there. He was being held, being interrogated, waterboarded, beaten, electrocuted, mocked, starved and being mentally tortured,” she said.
David Haines and his wife, Dragana Haines Governments have said hundreds of Westerners joined extremist groups including ISIS in Syria after civil war broke out in 2011.
Haines and the French journalists were also at several points held captive by another ISIS cell they dubbed the “Beatles” because of their British accents.
It was a “Beatles” member, killed in a 2015 drone strike, who beheaded Haines.
The French trial of Nemmouche and Tanem, as well as a Syrian defendant and two others in absentia because they are presumed dead, is to continue until March 21.
Last October, Haines marked 10 years since her father’s death, saying he would not want to be remembered as “the man in the orange jumpsuit” but as someone who loved his family, the BBC reported.
She described her father as “strong, kind and caring” and said he would have loved becoming a grandfather and spending time with her son.
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