The hostage, volunteer aid worker Dr Dilip Joseph, was freed, but Checque did not live to know that.
I am a volunteer for and the founder of Crossing Channels, an organisation that mediates between refugees, volunteers, aid workers and rescue teams.
The Foreign Secretary condemned the treatment of the volunteer aid worker, who left his family in Salford to help Syrian refugees.
The wife of Alan Henning, the British volunteer aid worker who is being held by Islamic State (Isis), has renewed her plea for her husband's release.
"If volunteer aid matches the aims of the project, then it can be of enormous help, even if it's unskilled," she says.
Their church said that the captives were not involved in any missionary work in Afghanistan and that they had provided only medical and other volunteer aid.
"Being Muslims, will we always be suspected?" said Mansoor Khan, a Pakistan-born doctor who runs Help & Hope, a volunteer aid group for Muslim immigrants in Queens.
"Just in the past 24 hours, we have erected 38 new tents," said Meamy Muhammed, a volunteer aid worker, as she hammered stakes into the dirt.
Although Adie does explore women's domestic and frontline contribution at home – from the Land Army to munitions workers to the Volunteer Aid Detachment – her coverage is sorely lacking in detail.
The wife of Alan Henning, the British volunteer aid worker who is being held by Isis, has said she received an audio file from her husband pleading for his life.
