The brother of a British engineer beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group said the militant leader should rot in hell.
"The man was an animal and he deserved what he got. And may he rot in hell," Paul Bigley, brother of Ken Bigley, told Channel Four television.
"He's gone. The world has rid themselves of a very bad person. So he thinks he's going to paradise? I'm convinced the man is in hell," Paul Bigley said.
Zarqawi's followers captured Ken Bigley, whose mother comes from Stepaside, Co Dublin, in 2004. They held him for weeks before filming and broadcasting his beheading.
Mr Bigley's body has not been recovered.
