A US court has heard how a terrified New Zealand nurse, Isis hostage Louisa Akavi, was comforted by a young American aid worker, Kayla Mueller, as she struggled with her captivity.

Write for Britain Daily Mailjournalist Daniel Bates reported that Mueller was taken to a room by her captors, the so-called “Beatles”, to comfort a “really scared” Akavi.

Fellow captive Frederico Motka was testifying in the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of crimes against Islamic State hostages. Elsheikh denies being part of the hostage group.

The trial is widely publicized and Mueller’s parents, Carl and Marsha, are there every day.

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The Muellers opened up about their daughter’s relationship with Akavi at Thing and had always hoped that she might be found alive and able to shed light on their daughter’s captivity.

Mueller, who suffered horrific abuse, was later handed over to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and repeatedly raped before being killed.

Akavi was taken hostage by Isis in 2013, but her captivity was kept secret for five years before the Red Cross issued an appeal for information, despite requests from the New Zealand government to keep her fate a secret . The government feared that any publicity would endanger Akavi’s life.

Akavi’s ultimate fate remains a mystery, and while the Red Cross believed she may still be alive, either in continued captivity or in a refugee camp somewhere, hope has faded. as there is no more news.

She is known to have shared a prison with Americans Steven Sotloff, James Foley and others, whose brutal beheadings by their executioners Isis struck terror around the world.

The group of executioners known as ‘The Beatles’ were among the most brutal, and the court heard details of the horrific torture endured by their captors.

the Daily Mail reported that Mueller was seen by her captors as the strongest, and was asked to comfort Akavi who was “really scared” and struggling to cope with her imprisonment.

Motka told the jury, “Louisa seemed really scared. Someone who was relatively new to the game – it’s a survival game,” said the Mail reported.

“She wasn’t well, that’s why they brought Kayla in as well.

“Kayla was brought in to help her calm down.”

Akavi was breastfeeding on the front line in Syria when her Red Cross convoy was ambushed and she was taken hostage.

There were initial attempts by his captors to negotiate a ransom of millions of dollars, but one was never paid.

Akavi had previously worked on the frontline in Iraq and elsewhere, and survived a massacre at a hospital in Chechnya that saw fellow nurses killed.

In a statement when his name was released, the Red Cross said Akavi had dedicated his life to those affected by war and violence.

“She went to Syria because people needed her. She wanted to use her skills to make a difference for some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

An experienced nurse and midwife, Akavi had worked with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement since 1987, when she was deployed to Malaysia to help Vietnamese refugees. Syria was his 17th field mission.