Last I heard was February 22nd. If they didn't get their ransom they were going to kill them.

From February 22nd.

"They beat Rachel with the rifle butts and I was dragged off and taken to a different location. They set a deadline of three or four days. If they don't hear then they say they will let us die.”

Pirate Nur Dhagabaeyr told the Evening Standard: “A release will not happen without a ransom. One of two things will happen. One is they will die in our hands, the second is, they will die in the hands of other merciless people as we may hand them over.”

In a telephone call to ITV News last night, Mrs Chandler, a 55-year-old economist, said: “They've just told me that if they don't get the money within four or five days they'll kill one of us.”

The couple are being held near Haradheere in Somalia.