A hotel manager ‘abandoned’ guests and was airlifted to safety with her two dogs 90 minutes before a hero British contractor was killed by Isis-linked terrorists in Africa, an inquest has heard.
Philip Mawer, 58, was trapped at the Amarula Hotel in the coastal town of Palma in Mozambique when it came under attack from militant group Al-Shabaab in March 2021.
He was offered an evacuation via helicopter but turned it down, ‘insisting women and children went first’.
Mr Mawer chose to drive himself to safety the next day but died fleeing the hotel in a road convoy when his vehicle was hit by
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