A person accused of being a member of the infamous “ISIS Beatles” terror cell has been arrested on terror costs after returning to the UK. The BBC claimed Aine Davis, from West London, was seized after flying into Luton Airport having served nearly eight years behind bars in a Turkish jail for being within the Islamic State terror group.
The 38 year-old has at all times denied being the fourth member of the Beatles - who got the nickname by hostages in Syria due to their English accents. Head of the Beatles was ISIS’s beheader in chief Mohammed Emwazi- AKA Jihadi John - who was killed in a 2015 drone strike in ISIS’s then Syria HQ of Raqqa.
Two different members, fellow Londoners Alexanda Kotey, 38, and El-Shafee el-Sheikh have been arrested a while later by Western -backed Kurdish forces the SDF. Each males have been imprisoned in Kurd-held Rojava, northern Syria, earlier than being airlifted to Iraq after which the States to face trial for a mix of terrorism costs.
Kotey pleaded responsible and is now serving his sentence and el-Sheikh, 33, went to trial, solely to be discovered responsible in April. A Met Police spokesperson advised Mirror On-line : “Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have as we speak, Wednesday 10 August, arrested a person at Luton airport.
“The 38-year-old man was arrested this night after he arrived into the UK on a flight from Turkey. He was arrested in relation to offences underneath sections 15, 17 and 57 of the Terrorism Act, 2000 and was taken to a south London police station, the place he at present stays in police custody.”
The ‘Beatles’ cell - all from west London - are thought to have volunteered to combat for IS in Syria and ended up guarding Western hostages. US authorities have stated the group killed 27 hostages, beheading a number of of them.
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