Freed UK hostage and wife say chained, threatened in Philippines A British man and his wife rescued this week from Islamist captors in the Philippines' south say they were chained and threatened with beheading if they didn't deliver a ransom.\\n\\nThe husband, named by British authorities as Alan Hyrons, painted a "very humiliating and degrading" life in captivity, with little to eat in a haze of constant fear. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES