Hi, it's Manveen. Today's episode is part 7 of our ongoing series, Last Man Standing,

an investigation to find out what happened to the British journalist John Cantley after

he was kidnapped by ISIS back in 2012. If you haven't heard the first six parts, please

do go back and have a listen. Just search for Last Man Standing, wherever you get your

podcasts. Also, a quick warning. This episode does contain descriptions of violence

and war.

So this picture is of a British journalist who is a hostage of ISIS and he became part

of that media week through being coerced. And he's right here, I'd rather be in bank

in that picture. Can he remember that journalist or the day he was filmed out that day by Islamic

State?

It would not have happened to be a climate crisis, you know, under the washroom.

I'm walking down a street of tidied ruins. The debris and dust have actually been swept

from the pavement, but the shrapnel pits and scars remain. There's ruin buildings on

either side. There's very few people's few passes by and just a couple of shops and a couple

of storeholders. Yet this was once a thriving thoroughfare on Mosul's west side. It was

here in Iraq's second city that John Cantley next appeared for the film Inside Mosul.

Now here I am on the streets of Mosul. It just goes to show the stretch of the territory

of the Islamic State. Hold all the way from Kobani and there I'm in a background. All the

way here in Mosul and here I am on the streets. That was me then and this is me now and it

just shows how much territory the Islamic State are controlling.

And in trying to work out John's fate in this city, I travel to Mosul and pretty quickly

as I retrace John's footsteps down the Jaffi Street. I met Iraqis who had met John.

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