ISIS Beatle known as 'Ringo' who beheaded hostages in Syria makes bid to return
ISIS Beatle known as 'Ringo' who beheaded hostages in Syria makes bid to return
ISIS Beatle known as 'Ringo' who beheaded hostages in Syria makes bid to return
An ISIS terrorist, part of a beheading gang called ‘The Beatles’, has asked to move back to Britain to be closer to family and friends.
Known to his victims as ‘Jihadi Gringo’, El Shafee Elsheikh grew up in White City, west London, after his family moved from Sudan in 1993 when he was five.
He left the UK in 2012 on a one-way Ryanair ticket and eventually ended up in Syria, where he volunteered to fight for the Islamic State group.
Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal killings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and humanitarian air workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller – most captured in videos released online that shocked the world.
He has now applied to transfer from a high-security jail in Colorado to the UK – despite being stripped of his British citizenship in 2018, the Sun reported.
Bethany Haines, the daughter of one of Elsheikh’s victims, David Haines – who was tortured and starved before being publicly beheaded – branded his bid to move prisons an ‘outrageous insult’.
She added: ‘The idea someone this evil could be back in a British prison makes my skin crawl.
Weird to have a preference for a person’s prison location. I’m guessing they believe the US prison is more brutal but UK prisons aren’t a picnic.
I think she's more pissed at the idea that he should have any kind of right to be close to his family and friends after taking the lives of other people's family members.