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JIHADI John murdered at least 27 ISIS hostages during his reign as the chief executioner of ISIS, investigators concluded.

The bloodthirsty jihadi - whose real name was Mohammed Emwazi - was tracked down and killed by a US drone strike in November 2015 in Raqqa, in Syria.

 Jihadi John in a beheading video that sickened the world
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Jihadi John in a beheading video that sickened the worldCredit: AFP
 Without his distinctive disguise and showing the bushy beard that gave him away
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Without his distinctive disguise and showing the bushy beard that gave him awayCredit: Rex Features

He was part of a group of four British jihadis nicknamed The Beatles, who appeared in sick videos beheading western hostages, including two fellow Brits.

Two other members of the group, Alexanda Kotey and El-Shafee Sheikh, are currently being held by Kurdish forces in Syria.

Now details of the criminal charges British prosecutors secretly prepared against Emwazi have been obtained

The document shows he was charged in November 2014 with 27 offences of murder and five offences of hostage-taking with an arrest warrant issued on January 28 2015.

This would have allowed prosecutors to bring him before a British court if he was detained in a country from which he could have been extradited.

The document was compiled by the Director of Public Prosecutions in response to a legal challenge against the Crown Prosecution Service by the mother of Sheikh.

“Mohammed Emwazi was killed in November 2015 and therefore has never been prosecuted,” it said.
The bloodthirsty terrorist was born in Kuwait in 1988, and died at the age of 27.

The family, who were Bedoon of Iraqi origin, lived in the town of Al Jahra, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1994 when he was six.

They settled in inner west London, moving between several properties in Maida Vale.

Jihadi John attended St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school, and later Quintin Kynaston School.

Emwazi first appeared in August 2014 when he killed American journalist James Foley.

Jihadi John’s chilling execution videos shocked the world.

The monster always appeared masked in the videos in which he was filmed beheading various western hostages including two Brits, David Haines and Alan Henning.

The videos became symbolic of the cruelty ISIS and always showed a hostage kneeling before a knife wielding Emwazi.

Along with other ISIS material, they were slickly produced but served to unite the world in revulsion at the group’s barbarity.

It has also been reported he forced his prisoners to wrestle each other or be tortured by the sadistic Beatles execution squad.

A mass grave believed to contain the bodies of the executed hostages was found in November 2018.

In 2006, he went to the University of Westminster, where he received a lower second class BSc in Information Systems with Business Management.

Last year, a documentary revealed details of the hunt for him that resulted in the drone strike.

It also showed pictures of the terrorist unmasked, with a long bushy beard and wielding a Kalashnikov.

Drones had been searching for him for a year but he always surrounded himself with women and children and made sure he was in crowded areas.

Emwazi made strenuous efforts to avoid detection including using encryption programmes and wiping every computer he used to send messages.

Within hours of the first video, officials at the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ used voice recognition technology to established his identity.

GCHQ used voice recordings from previous wire taps taken during a three-year surveillance operation and compared it to the disguised voice used in the ISIS video.

They also compared the pattern of the veins in his left hand, in which held a knife pointed directly towards the camera, with archive images of him.

The angle of his beard and the way he walked also allowed him to be positively identified before being blown away.

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 David Haines, also a British aid worker, was brutally slaughtered by ISIS
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David Haines, also a British aid worker, was brutally slaughtered by ISIS
 Aid worker Alan Henning was also beheaded by Jihadi John
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Aid worker Alan Henning was also beheaded by Jihadi JohnCredit: PA:Press Association
 Emwazi, pictured when he was younger, grew up in London
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Emwazi, pictured when he was younger, grew up in LondonCredit: Rex Features

 


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