**Former British hostage Peter Moore has told how he was subjected to mock executions after being seized in Iraq.**The 36-year-old computer expert, from Lincoln, arrived back in the UK on 1 January following his two-and-a-half years in captivity.
There were “many, many times” he thought he would be killed, he said.
He said his guards once blindfolded him, put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger while another gun was fired behind his back.
“I just thought I was dead. And then I realised I could still hear laughing, I was still handcuffed and that wasn’t the case.”
Mr Moore was seized in May 2007 along with four bodyguards.
The bodies of three of them - Alec MacLachlan, 30, from Llanelli, South Wales, Jason Swindlehurst, 38, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and Jason Creswell, 39, originally from Glasgow, were handed over to British authorities last year.
A fourth bodyguard, Alan McMenemy, 34, from Glasgow, is also thought to have been killed.
Having lit four candles at Lincoln Cathedral for his fellow hostages on Tuesday, Mr Moore paid tribute to them and called for the return of Mr McMenemy’s body.
“There’s still one body left and obviously I ask that that body is released immediately. As far as I can see there’s no reason to keep that.”