An ISIS terrorist who was a part of a beheading gang dubbed The Beatles has had his bid to maneuver to a snug British jail refused.
El Shafee Elsheikh – referred to as Jihadi Ringo – is at present serving life in a high-security US jail after he was convicted of hostage-taking and conspiring to homicide in 2022.
The 38-year-old had utilized to maneuver again to his ‘residence nation’ Britain so he may very well be nearer to household and pals – regardless of his citizenship being revoked in 2018.
Elsheikh’s gang videoed the brutal beheadings of captives in territory held by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
This included help employee David Haines, whose daughter Bethany, has mentioned it’s a ‘enormous aid’ that Elsheikh won’t step foot on British soil.
‘It ought to have been shut down from the outset,’ she added in feedback made to The Solar.
It’s understood that Elsheikh’s bid to maneuver to the UK was blocked by the US Division of Justice.
El Shafee Elsheikh, 38, a former British citizen, was sentenced to life in US jail for his membership of Islamic State
David Haines was captured and beheaded in 2014 after being held by a four-man terrorist group of Britons dubbed ‘The Beatles’
Bethany Haines, the daughter of David Haines, who was murdered by Islamic terrorists, arrives on the Albert V Bryan Federal Courthouse in 2022 for Elsheikh’s trial
Elsheikh was born in Sudan and grew up in London however had his British citizenship revoked in 2018.
He was tried by a Federal jury in Virginia in 2022 and was handed eight life sentences. He’s at present being housed in a supermax jail in Colorado.
Mr Haines, who was from Perth in Scotland, was kidnapped by ISIS whereas he was working at a refugee camp in Syria in 2013.
He was held hostage by Elsheikh and his gangmates Amon Kotey, Mohammed Emwazi and Aine Davis.
A horrific 2014 video confirmed Mr Haines kneeling subsequent to knife-wielding terrorist Emwazi – dubbed Jihadi John – earlier than being beheaded.
Different victims of the gang included Individuals James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.
All of the hostages besides Ms Mueller have been executed in videotaped beheadings that ISIS launched on-line.
Ms Mueller was compelled into slavery and raped a number of occasions by Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi earlier than she was killed.
The deaths of Foley, Sotloff and Kassig have been confirmed in 2014, whereas Ms Mueller’s dying was confirmed in early 2015.
Left: US freelance journalist Steven Sotloff. Proper: Kayla Mueller is proven after talking to a gaggle in Prescott, Arizona. Each have been killed in Syria by ISIS
Mohammed Emwazi, who grew to become referred to as ‘Jihadi John’, brandishing a knife. He was killed by a drone strike in 2015
James Foley, a contract journalist, who was beheaded by Islamic State
Mr Haines’s daughter Bethany beforehand mentioned of Elsheikh: ‘He left this nation to deliver terror to the world and inflicted essentially the most appalling therapy on my father and others when he held him captive.
‘He is without doubt one of the worst terrorists to come back from this nation and it is an outrageous insult to our households for him to use to return to one among our prisons for a neater life.’
The IS Beatles got their identify by hostages who observed their distinctive British accents.
The costs in opposition to Elsheikh carried a possible dying sentence however US prosecutors agreed to not search his execution in a cope with British officers.
Elsheikh’s trial, and emotional testimony from the households of his victims, gripped observers on each side of the Atlantic.
‘This prosecution unmasked the vicious and sadistic ISIS Beatles,’ mentioned First Assistant US Lawyer Raj Parekh, noting that Elsheikh and different members of the gang at all times wore masks after they appeared in entrance of their hostages.
‘This is without doubt one of the most important worldwide terrorism instances ever delivered to trial,’ mentioned Commander Richard Smith, head of counterterrorism at London’s Metropolitan Police Service.
