Muslim convert suspected of being member of ISIS ‘Beatles’ death squad jailed for eight years
A MUSLIM convert suspected of being a member of the IS death squad dubbed The Beatles was yesterday jailed for eight years.
Londoner Aine Leslie Davis, 39, got six years at the Old Bailey for possessing a firearm, plus two years over charges of funding terrorism.
He admitted the offences last month after the Court of Appeal threw out a bid to drop them.
Davis was deported from Turkey last August and detained on arrival at Luton airport after serving a 7½-year sentence for membership of the terror group.
He has always denied being connected with The Beatles cell — so-called due to their British accents — which tortured and beheaded western hostages in Syria.
Two are serving life in the US.
Another, dubbed Jihadi John, was killed in a drone strike in 2015.
Mark Summers KC said: "The reality he found when he arrived in Syria was profoundly different to anything he had ever imagined.
"What he thought he could achieve personally in a war zone transpired to be wholly and completely naive.
"Very little involved helping people of Syria. It involved most of the time in-fighting and schisms."