1 Hostage-taking.
(1)
A person, whatever his nationality, who, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere,—
(a)
detains any other person (“the hostage”), and
(b)
in order to compel a State, international governmental organisation or person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens to kill, injure or continue to detain the hostage,
commits an offence.
(2)
A person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.