Muhammad Emwazi – Jihadi John

Jihadi John

Mohammed Emwazi was one of the most prominent members of the so-called ISIS Beatles and was regularly seen carrying out executions in gruesome beheading videos.

He took part in the barbaric beheadings of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and US humanitarian aid worker Peter Kassig.

The terrorist, who was born in Kuwait and grew up in Queen’s Park, West London, was charged with 27 murders and five hostage-taking offenses in November 2014.

He is believed to have been killed in a Hellfire missile drone strike in Syria in 2015.

Aine Lesley Davis – Paul

Jihadi Paul

Born Aine Leslie Junior Davis to Fay Rodriquez in 1984, ‘Paul’ is believed to have spent his early childhood in Hammersmith, London, where his mother lived.

He was one of 13 children born to his father by four different women.

The former tube driver, who had drug dealing and firearms convictions, became a Muslim while serving time in prison.

In 2014, his wife, Amal al-Wahabi, was convicted of financing terrorism after convincing a friend to smuggle him £16,000 ($21,000) in cash along with her underwear.

Davis was captured by Turkish security officials in 2015 and was later convicted of being a high-ranking member of a terrorist organization and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

Davis was deported from Turkey to the United Kingdom in August 2022, and a day later – on 11 August – Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service authorized charges to be laid against Aine Davis for 2014 terrorism offences.

He is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges of financing terrorism and possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes.

Alexanda Kotey – George

Alexander Kotey

Kotey, 38, was born to a Ghanaian father and Greek Cypriot mother and grew up in Shepherd’s Bush, West London.

He is thought to have worked as a drug dealer before becoming radicalized and converting to Islam in his early 20s.

In 2012 he traveled to Syria, where he claimed the US was involved in beheadings and used “extraordinarily cruel methods of torture” including electronic shock.

He was also accused of an ISIS recruiter who persuaded a number of other British extremists to join the terror group.

Kotey was captured in Syria while trying to escape to Turkey in 2018 and was held at a US military center in Iraq.

The British Government wanted him to be tried in the USA; authorities here believe there is a more realistic chance of prosecution than in the United Kingdom.

He was extradited last year and charged with a number of terrorism offences. He pleaded guilty in September 2021 and was sentenced to life imprisonment, 15 years of which will be served in the United States and then transferred to the United Kingdom.

El Shafee Elsheikh – Ringo

Al Shafa Al Sheikh

Born in Sudan, Elsheikh, 33, grew up in West London and is the last of four British terrorists to defect to join ISIS.

He was linked to the killing of several hostages after traveling to Syria to join the extremist group.

He was captured along with Kotey while trying to escape to Turkey in 2018 and has since been transferred to the US; Here he faces charges of terrorism and the beheading of Western hostages.

He initially pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, conspiracy to murder and providing material to support terrorism, but refused to testify. He was found guilty after a trial in April 2022.

He eventually pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to life imprisonment.