UK police have an alleged member of the Isis ‘Beatles’ terror cell in custody, in keeping with a report.
Aine Davis is accused of being a part of a infamous gang of extremists whose grotesque movies of brutal executions shocked the world.
Davis, now 38, travelled to the Center East in 2013 as the unconventional group was sweeping throughout Iraq and Syria.
Born in west London, Davis has served a seven-and-a-half yr sentence in a Turkish jail after being captured in Istanbul and convicted of membership of a terror group.
He was arrested stepping off a airplane as he returned to the UK for the primary time, the BBC reported, after it emerged he was as a result of be despatched again to his nation of start.
Throughout his trial, Davis denied being a member of the Beatles cell.
The Met stated a person had been arrested after arriving within the nation however didn’t verify his identification.
A press release learn: ‘Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have at the moment, 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 below sections 15, 17 and 57 of the Terrorism Act, 2000 and was taken to a south London police station, the place he at the moment stays in police custody.’
The cell earned its nickname as their British accents gave away their nationality, regardless of efforts to guard their identities.
Authorities consider they guarded and tortured two dozen hostages, a few of whom have been executed, together with by beheading.
Davis was radicalised in jail after being jailed for drug and gun offences in 2006.
He modified his title to Hamza and have become acquainted with Mohammed Emwazi, the person who would go on to be nicknamed Jihadi John by the media.
Emwazi, who attended the identical London mosque as Davis, was killed by a drone strike in Syria in 2015.
Two different members of the group have been captured and put earlier than judges within the US.
Alexanda Kotey is serving a life sentence and El Shafee Elsheikh is because of be sentenced this month within the US after being convicted in April.
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