Islamic State Beatle nicknamed Jihadi Paul is set to be deported from Turkey to Britain
A member of the ‘ISIS Beatles’ will be sent back to the UK from Turkey after serving a terrorism sentence in the country.
Aine Davis is accused of being a part of the British ISIS execution squad and was captured by Turkish forces in 2015 before being convicted for his membership of the extremist group.
Davis has served his sentence in Turkey and authorities are planning to send him back to Britain – saying that the country does not want to become a ‘dumping ground’ for Western terrorists.
The alleged ‘Beatle’ has retained his British citizenship and it is thought that this will make it difficult for the Government to refuse his entry.
Sources have however disputed that he was a part of the infamous terror cell comprised of Brits and led by so-called ‘Jihadi John’.
It is unknown whether Davis will be arrested upon return to Britain.
The Telegraph reported that if Davis is ‘deemed to pose a threat to national security’ he will remain under intense surveillance to protect the public.
He denied being a part of the cell which was led by ‘Jihadi John’ – real name Mohammed Emwazi – in his Turkish court trial.
A member of the so-called ‘Isis Beatles’, Emwazi featured in several sickening videos showing the beheadings of Western captives. He was killed by a US drone strike in 2015.
His release and deportation comes months after two members of the ‘Beatles’ were convicted of terrorism charges in the United States in April.
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are both British but they renounced their citizenship when they joined ISIS in Syria in 2014.
They murdered two dozen hostages including Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller, and at least eight other hostages from different countries, including the UK.
Kotey and Elsheikh were both found guilty of terrorism charges in Virginia, US, and the former was sentenced to life in prison.
Elsheikh will be sentenced for his crimes in August.
‘The Beatles’ were given their name by British hostage John Cantlie, a freelance journalist who used the name as a code so he could talk about his captors covertly.
The news of Davis’s release and deportation comes a day after the only suicide bomber to survive the worst terrorist attack in the recent history of France was sentenced to life in prison.
Salah Abdeslam, 32, has no hope of parole for his part in the November 2015 atrocities in which 130 people were murdered.
On Wednesday night, five specialist anti-terrorist judges sitting in Paris announced that Abdeslam was guilty of various terrorist related charges along with 18 other defendants.
Abdeslam was ‘fully integrated into the terrorist cell’, said court president Jean-Louis Périès.
It followed a marathon ten-month trial at a specially built court in the Palais de Justice in Paris.
Abdeslam, a French Moroccan national from Belgium, claimed he deliberately pulled out of the rampage in which other ISIS terrorists including his own brother were blown to pieces.
Pleading for leniency this week, he said: ‘I know that there is still hate for me. I ask you to hate me with moderation.’
He also described himself as a ‘Soldier with Islamic State’, and had been on remand in a prison on the outskirts of Paris.
Source: Daily Mail
