Two men who helped murder American journalist James Foley as part of the Islamic State group’s campaign of terror are facing justice in the US. One of them is being sentenced for murder on 19 August. James’s mother sat face-to-face with the other.
It was a cold morning in Virginia last year when Diane Foley sat opposite the man who kidnapped and helped murder her son, looking him fully in the face as they sat in a nondescript room in the courthouse where he would later be sentenced to life in prison.
When she entered the room, Alexanda Kotey was already there, seated amid a flurry of activity and noise from FBI agents and defence lawyers and minders.
