ISIS ‘Beatle’ El Shafee Elsheikh faces dying alone in America’s hardest supermax jail, which has been labelled the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’.
Elsheikh, 34, was sentenced in August to life in jail, however the Brit, nicknamed Ringo, averted being despatched to ADX Florence in Colorado, claiming he suffered from poor psychological well being.
After being assessed, he was moved there earlier this month and is now in solitary confinement in a 7ft by 12ft cell, the Mirror studies.
A US jail insider informed the publication: ‘Elsheikh will rot within the closest factor America has to hell on Earth. He’s now precisely the place he belongs.’
Elsheikh was considered one of 4 terrorists in an IS cell in Iraq and Syria, referred to as the Beatles by their captors resulting from their British accents.
Captured British Islamic State group fighters El Shafee el-Sheikh (left) and Alexanda Kotey (proper) posing for mugshots in an undisclosed location. After being assessed, he was moved there earlier this month and is now in solitary confinement
America Penitentiary Administrative Most Facility, also called the ADX or ‘Supermax’, in Florence, Colorado
They’re Elsheikh, Aine Davis, Alexanda Kotey and Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi, referred to as Jihadi John, was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2015.
US authorities say the group, whose members all grew up in west London, beheaded 27 hostages.
Hostages have additionally mentioned the group tortured folks utilizing waterboarding, electrical shocks, and mock executions.
Elsheikh was convicted in April 2022 of hostage-taking, conspiracy to homicide US residents and supporting a terrorist organisation.
He was sentenced to eight life sentences, served concurrently, with no choice for parole.
Two different Brits, shoe bomber Richard Reid, 49, and Abu Hamza, 64, are additionally serving life sentences in ADX Florence.
Robert Hood, a former jail warden, as soon as mentioned: ‘This place shouldn’t be designed for humanity.’
Elsheikh, who was born in Sudan and raised in London, was convicted of conspiring to kill 4 American hostages: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and help staff Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.
All however Mueller had been executed in videotaped beheadings that ISIS launched on-line.
Mueller was compelled into slavery and raped a number of occasions by Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi earlier than she was killed.
Elsheikh, 34, was sentenced in August to life in jail, however the Brit, nicknamed Ringo, averted being despatched to ADX Florence in Colorado , claiming he suffered from poor psychological well being
Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh had been each prosecuted within the US. Kotey pleaded responsible and was additionally sentenced to life in jail
The deaths of Foley, Sotloff and Kassig had been confirmed in 2014, whereas Mueller’s dying was confirmed in early 2015.
Elsheikh’s warped crimes had been branded ‘brutal’ and ‘horrific’ in August as he was handed his eight life sentences.
Elsheikh was captured alongside Kotey in Syria in 2018 by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces whereas attempting to flee to Turkey.
In 2021, Kotey pleaded responsible to eight counts referring to his involvement.
Kotey was jailed within the US in April 2022 for his half within the killings.
Davis was jailed in Turkey earlier than being deported to the UK in September final 12 months.
Hostages freed by the ISIS Beatles gave important proof to establish their captors, police mentioned.
The hostages informed British police the lads had bragged of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier.
Officers recognized the protest and recovered video footage of Elsheikh and Kotey being arrested.
Evaluation of their telephones confirmed the their hyperlinks to the cell’s executioner, Emwazi.
The main points had been revealed by Scotland Yard forward of Elsheikh’s sentencing in america In August final 12 months.
Peter Kassig, 26, in Syria wrote a letter to his father shortly earlier than he was beheaded in a videotaped homicide. The letter was learn out in courtroom throughout the trial
James Foley is pictured whereas protecting the civil struggle in Aleppo, Syria
Left: US freelance journalist Steven Sotloff. Proper: Kayla Mueller is proven after talking to a gaggle in Prescott, Arizona. Each had been killed in Syria by ISIS
Elsheikh’s sentencing listening to got here on the eight-year anniversary of the day that ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube exhibiting the ugly beheading of Foley.
Raj Parekh, the legal professional representing the households, mentioned Elsheikh remained ‘defiantly remorseless and unrepentant’ throughout his sentencing.
He mentioned the jihadist had made no effort to fulfill victims’ households.
At sentencing, the courtroom heard statements from a number of the victims’ family members, together with these of Foley.
His mom, Diane Foley mentioned: ‘This trial has revealed the horrific human rights crimes you dedicated whereas a part of Isis. Your hatred overtook your humanity.’
The costs in opposition to Elsheikh, whose British citizenship was withdrawn in 2018, carried a possible dying sentence, however US prosecutors had agreed not search his execution in a take care of British officers to hold ahead the case.
Elsheikh’s trial, and emotional testimony from the households of his victims, gripped observers on each side of the Atlantic, and his sentencing was greeted with approval by US and UK officers.
El Shafee Elsheikh throughout his arrest at an EDL counter-protest in central London on September 11, 2011
Elsheikh is pictured in a courtroom room sketch on April 1, 2022. ‘The Beatles’ – so-called as a result of they’d British accents – tortured and executed US and British hostages
‘This prosecution unmasked the vicious and sadistic ISIS Beatles,’ mentioned First Assistant US Legal professional Raj Parekh, noting that Elsheikh and the opposite Beatles at all times wore masks once they appeared in entrance of their hostages.
‘This is among the most vital worldwide terrorism circumstances ever dropped at trial,’ mentioned Commander Richard Smith, head of counterterrorism at London’s Metropolitan Police Service, in an announcement to DailyMail.com.
‘These had been a number of the most barbaric terrorist acts ever seen, carried out with chilling callousness and brutality,’ he added.
‘I hope that these most affected could take some consolation in figuring out that these extraordinarily harmful males have been dropped at justice.’
Smith mentioned: ‘This can be a time to recollect the entire victims – these harmless individuals who had been senselessly killed, and likewise the surviving hostages who skilled unimaginable horrors by the hands of El Shafee Elsheikh and his co-defendant Alexanda Kotey.
‘They’ve proven outstanding fortitude and bravado in giving their accounts of what occurred to investigators, and in courtroom.’
Elsheikh is probably the most infamous and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State group to ever be convicted in a U.S. Court docket, prosecutors mentioned.
The life sentence was a foregone conclusion after a jury convicted him of a slew of heinous crimes earlier in 2022.
Who’re the ISIS Beatles? The group included ringleader Jihadi John who shared beheading movies
Mohammed Emwazi – Jihadi John
Jihadi John
Mohammed Emwazi was some of the outstanding members of the so-called ISIS Beatles and was usually seen finishing up executions of their horrific beheading movies.
He took half within the barbaric beheading of British help staff David Haines and Alan Henning, US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and US humanitarian employee Peter Kassig.
The terrorist, who was born in Kuwait and grew up in Queen’s Park, West London, was charged with 27 counts of homicide and 5 counts of hostage taking in November 2014.
It’s believed he was killed in a Hellfire missile drone strike in Syria in 2015.
Aine Lesley Davis – Paul
Jihadi Paul
Born Aine Leslie Junior Davis in 1984 to Fay Rodriquez, ‘Paul’ is believed to have spent the early years of his childhood in Hammersmith, London, the place his mom lived.
He was considered one of 13 kids his father had by 4 totally different girls.
The previous tube driver, who has drug-dealing and firearms convictions to his identify, transformed to Islam whereas serving time in jail.
In 2014 his spouse, Amal el-Wahabi, was convicted of funding terrorism after she persuaded a pal to attempt to smuggle £16,000 ($21,000) in money in her underwear to him.
Davis was captured by Turkish safety officers in 2015 and was later discovered responsible of being a senior member of a terrorist group and was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail.
In August 2022, Davis was deported from Turkey to the UK, and a day later – on August 11 – Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service authorised costs in opposition to Aine Davis for terrorism offences in 2014.
Alexanda Kotey – George
Alexanda Kotey
Kotey, 38, was born to a Ghanaian father and a Greek Cypriot mom and grew up in Shepherd’s Bush, West London.
Earlier than his radicalisation, he’s thought to have labored as a drug vendor earlier than changing to Islam in his early 20s.
In 2012, he left for Syria the place the US claims he was concerned in beheadings and identified for administering ‘exceptionally merciless torture strategies’, together with digital shocks.
He was additionally accused of performing as an ISIS recruiter who satisfied numerous different British extremists to hitch the fear group.
Kotey was captured in Syria whereas attempting to flee to Turkey in 2018 and was held in a US navy heart in Iraq.
The British Authorities needed him tried within the US, the place officers imagine there’s a extra lifelike likelihood of prosecution than within the UK.
He was extradited final 12 months and was charged with numerous terror offences. He pleaded responsible in September 2021 and was sentenced to life in jail, 15 years of which might be spent in america after which he could be transferred to the UK.
El Shafee Elsheikh – Ringo
El Shafee Elsheikh
Born in Sudan, Elsheikh, 33, grew up in West London and is the ultimate member of the 4 British terrorists who fled to hitch ISIS.
He has been linked to the killings of numerous hostages after heading to Syria to hitch the extremist group.
He was captured together with Kotey once they tried to flee to Turkey in 2018 and has since been transported to the US the place he now faces costs referring to terrorism and beheading Western hostages.
He initially pleaded not responsible to all costs of kidnap, conspiracy to homicide and offering materials to help terrorism, however he refused to present proof. He was discovered responsible following a trial in April 2022.
He finally pleaded responsible to all counts and was sentenced to life in jail.