A US federal court will today sentence a British-born jihadist to a potential life term for his involvement with a brutal Islamic State terror cell that kidnapped, tortured and beheaded western hostages in Syria.
El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was convicted by jury in Virginia earlier this year on eight charges related to his role in the notorious gang of British terrorists known by their captives as the Beatles. The jury delivered a unanimous verdict that Elsheikh was part of the hostage-taking gang that beheaded three Americans, two British aid workers and two Japanese men under the Isis regime.
