A person alleged to be the fourth member of the so-called “Beatles” Islamic State terror cell has been arrested within the UK.
Aine Davis, 38, from Hammersmith, west London, was arrested on Wednesday night after arriving at Luton airport on a flight from Turkey.
He was detained in relation to offences below sections 15, 17 and 57 of the Terrorism Act, 2000.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Counterterrorism Command took him to a police station in south London.
The “Beatles” are thought to have been chargeable for the kidnap and holding of greater than 20 Westerners, and the execution of at the very least seven of them, together with Britons David Haines and Alan Henning and American help employees Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.
The group precipitated outrage world wide after releasing movies of the executions of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
Survivors of the kidnap gang instructed of how they nicknamed their gaolers “the Beatles” due to their British accents, dubbing the cell ringleader and executioner – Mohammed Emwazi from Queen’s Park, West London – as “John.”
He was later given the nickname Jihadi John.
El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, additionally from West London, had been “Ringo” and “George” however the males all the time wore masks and not one of the hostages at Elsheikh’s trial within the US, earlier this yr, had been capable of establish them.
A fourth member, who was stated to be much less concerned, was apparently referred to as “Paul.”
Emwazi was killed on the age of 27 in a US drone assault on 12 November 2015.
The identical day, Davis was arrested by Turkish counter-terrorism police in a raid on a villa in Silivri, a western suburb of Istanbul.
He was subsequently convicted of membership of ISIS and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail.
He was launched from Ankara’s Sincan jail, having served his sentence, and deported again to Britain.
Kotey was jailed within the US in April for his half within the torture and homicide of hostages, whereas Elsheikh, might be sentenced in August for his position.
The former British nationwide faces as much as a life sentence in jail.
Source: information.sky.com”