HOPE remains for British Islamic State hostage Alan Henning after his wife received a recording confirming he had been cleared of spy charges and declared “to be no threat”.

But he’s not out of danger yet, says Barbara Henning, who said her husband was “begging for his life”.

“An audio file of Alan pleading for his life has just been received by me,” his wife said in a statement released through Britain’s Foreign Office.

“He went to Syria to help his Muslim friends deliver much needed aid.

“We are at a loss why those leading Islamic State cannot open their hearts and minds to the facts surrounding Alan’s imprisonment and why they continue to threaten his life.”

Barbara Henning's statement released via UK foreign office 1/2 pic.twitter.com/FJyolgrbp1 — Stuart Millar (@stuartmillar159) September 23, 2014

Second part of Barbara Henning's statement pic.twitter.com/rDz934CQ9P — Stuart Millar (@stuartmillar159) September 23, 2014

Mrs Henning said that her attempts to communicate with the IS group had been ignored, and that she had learned that Henning had been cleared by an Islamic law court.

“I have been told that he has been to a Sharia Court and found innocent of being a spy and declared to be no threat,” she said.

“I implore Islamic State to abide by the decisions of their own justice system. Please release Alan.”

It was the family’s second appeal since Henning, a father of two teenage children, was threatened in a video that showed the brutal killing of British aid worker David Haines earlier this month.

Mr Henning, a 47-year-old taxi driver who volunteered to help drive an aid convoy to Syria for Muslim charity Aid4Syria, was kidnapped 10 months ago.

The appeal came after the release of a new video of another British hostage, freelance photojournalist John Cantlie, who first appeared last week in a video in which he announced he was being held captive by IS.

The new video is introduced as “Episode 1” in a series, and shows Cantlie criticising the actions of Western governments in a pre-prepared script.

New ISIS Video Said to Show Captive British Journalist After a string of grisly execution videos, the Islamic State, or ISIS, on Thursday released video appearing to show captive British journalist John Cantlie delivering criticism of western media and governments.

On Tuesday the United States and Arab allies attacked jihadists within Syria in bomb and missile strikes, a turning point after years of reluctance from the West to intervene in Syria’s civil war.

Following the strikes the brother-in-law of the kidnapped Henning said he feared the move could make it harder to find and rescue the hostage as militants fled attacks.

“They’ll take him with them and no one will know where he is again,” Colin Livesey told ITV News.