Born: 11 February 1984;

Place of Birth: London, United Kingdom;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: British;

General Info:
Aine Lesley Davis (also known as Jihadi Paul) is a British convert to Islam, who was convicted in a Turkish court for being a member of a terrorist group, while serving as a fighter for the Islamic State.

Prior to leaving the United Kingdom, Davis is reported to have been a drug dealer who had a conviction for possession of firearms.

His wife, Amal el-Wahabi, was convicted in 2014 for funding terrorism, when she tried to use a friend to smuggle 20 000 euros to him.

Messages on el-Wahabi’s mobile phone, between herself and Davis were used by the prosecution to argue that el-Wahabi should have realized Davis was involved in militancy.

Citing text messages the pair exchanged on their mobile phones, the prosecution argued that el-Wahabi arranged the funds transfer to retain Davis’s loyalty, because he had talked of taking a second wife.

Davis was captured by Turkish security officials, in Istanbul, on 12 November 2015.

A Turkish court convicted him of being a member of a terrorist group, in 2017, and gave him a seven year sentence.

At his trial, he admitted being acquainted with Emwazi Mohammed (aka Jihadi John), from when they attended the same mosque, in London.

But he denied encountering him in Iraq or Syria. He denied playing a role in the abuse of captives and that he had grown disenchanted with Islamic State and had crossed the border to Turkey to acquire false identity papers, to start a new life, since he knew he was a wanted man.

He claimed a photo of him, posing with armed fighters, dated to 2013, and he had taken it as a joke in Idlib and did not know who the gunmen were.

In February 2018, several captives who had endured abuse by the surviving members of “The Beatles”, called for them to face prosecution in the United Kingdom.