A man accused of being a member of the notorious “ISIS Beatles” terror cell has been arrested on terror charges after returning to the UK. The BBC claimed Aine Davis, from West London, was seized after flying into Luton Airport having served almost eight years behind bars in a Turkish prison for being in the Islamic State terror group.
The 38 year-old has always denied being the fourth member of the Beatles - who were given the nickname by hostages in Syria because of 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 other members, fellow Londoners Alexanda Kotey, 38, and El-Shafee el-Sheikh were arrested some time later by Western -backed Kurdish forces the SDF. Both men were imprisoned in Kurd-held Rojava, northern Syria, before being airlifted to Iraq and then the States to face trial for a mixture of terrorism charges.
Kotey pleaded guilty and is now serving his sentence and el-Sheikh, 33, went to trial, only to be found guilty in April. A Met Police spokesperson told Mirror Online : “Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have today, Wednesday 10 August, arrested a man at Luton airport.
“The 38-year-old man was arrested this evening after he arrived into the UK on a flight from Turkey. He was arrested in relation to offences under sections 15, 17 and 57 of the Terrorism Act, 2000 and was taken to a south London police station, where he currently remains in police custody.”
The ‘Beatles’ cell - all from west London - are thought to have volunteered to fight for IS in Syria and ended up guarding Western hostages. US authorities have said the group killed 27 hostages, beheading several of them.
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