Warrington aid worker who died in Ukraine may have been tortured

THE body of a Warrington aid worker who died while being held captive in Ukraine has been returned by Russia with signs of “possible unspeakable torture”, according to Ukraine.
Paul Urey, 45, died in July while being held by pro-Russian separatists in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic breakaway region of Ukraine.
Mr Urey, from Culcheth, was described by Russia as a mercenary – but the UK described him as an aid worker.
Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said “Russians” had now returned the body with “signs of possible unspeakable torture,” giving no further details.
He said Ukraine would identify the perpetrators of what was a war crime and hold them to account.
Mr Urey was detained at a checkpoint near the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia in April and accused of being a mercenary.
It is understood that Mr Urey had type 1 diabetes and needed insulin.
But evidence of torture could potentially contradict earlier claims by Russian-backed officials that Mr Urey died in captivity on July 10 as a result of underlying health conditions and “stress.”
Russia’s state news agency, Tass, reported that Mr Urey died of “acute coronary insufficiency aggravated by pulmonary and brain edema.”
He was also said to be in a “depressed psychological state.”
In July the UK Foreign Office summoned the Russian ambassador over reports of Mr Urey’s death in detention, for which it said Russia must bear full responsibility.
Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was then foreign secretary, said at the time , that he had been captured while undertaking humanitarian work.
She said: “He was in Ukraine to try and help the Ukrainian people in the face of the unprovoked Russian invasion.”
Mr Urey’s mother, Linda Urey has accused the separatists who held her son of being “murderers”
She said her son was a “very sick man” He was a diabetic and needed insulin.