Aine Davis, 31, from Hammersmith, has been identified as an accomplice of “Jihadi John”
(Picture: (Police handout))A British man accused of being the fourth ISIS Beatle “Jihadi Paul” is to be deported back to the UK after serving five years in a Turkish prison, according to reports.
Aine Davis, 42, originally from Hammersmith, was one of the gang of four IS militants nicknamed “the Beatles” by their captives due to their British accents.
Turkish security sources said they were deporting him because they didn’t want their country to become a “dumping ground” for Western extremists.
The cell – said to be made up of ringleader Mohammed Emwazi known as Jihadi John, Aine Davis, El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey – was allegedly responsible for the brutal killings of a number of Western and Japanese captives, including Britons Alan Henning and David Haines.
Davis has been held at Ankara’s Sincan prison since 2017 but is due to be released after serving seven-and-a-half years in prison for being a member of IS. The Londoner is scheduled to be deported to the UK on July 9, Middle Eastern Eye reported.
“We have been very clear on our policy,” one senior Turkish official told the website. “We aren’t going to become a dumping ground for the western extremists.”
The decision came as the daughter of a British aid worker David Haines beheaded by the Islamic State terror cell learned of her father’s final plea to his captors before being put to death when she confronted Alexanda Kotey in a US prison.
Bethany Haines said her father David had apparently asked ringleader Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, to “make it quick” when he was led away to be murdered in 2014.
She said her father’s final wish was recalled to her during a two-hour face-to-face meeting with Londoner Alexanda Kotey in Virginia, US, where he was jailed in April for his part in the torture and murder of western hostages.
Ms Haines told ITV news: “He (Kotey) told me that Jihadi John had been away to execute my father and my father knew what was coming, closed his eyes, and said: ‘Can you make it quick?’
“I can picture him saying that, in his orange jumpsuit, with his eyes closed. I can picture him saying: ‘Please make it quick.’”
The Home Office has been approached for comment on the deportation of Davis.
