The widow of a British hostage whose body has been handed in to the British embassy in Baghdad five years after he was kidnapped says his family can now grieve for him properly.
Alan McMenemy, a security guard from Glasgow, was taken by gunmen in Iraq along with three other guards and an IT expert they were protecting in 2007.
After his body was handed over on January 20, Roseleen McMenemy said his loved ones can "draw some comfort from the fact that we have him home at last".
The only one of the men to be released alive was the bodyguards' protection target, Peter Moore, who was freed in December 30 2009, 946 days after he was kidnapped.
The Foreign Office released a statement on behalf of Mrs McMenemy, which said: "Our families have suffered terrible uncertainty and distress over the past four years and eight months. We have worried about Alan every single minute of each waking day.
"We now know that we will shortly have Alan home again, this will allow us to properly grieve for him."
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