ISIS ‘Beatle’ arrested at Luton airport after release from Turkish prison
A BRIT said to have belonged to the IS beheading gang dubbed The Beatles was arrested when he arrived back in Britain last night.
Aine Davis, 38, was deported from Turkey after serving 7½ years for terror offences.
Counter-terror cops arrested him on arrival and quizzed him over his activities in Syria. He could now face charges.
If he is freed, he will pose a major challenge to police and spooks as one of the highest-profile terror Brits to return from Syria.
Davis, of Hammersmith, West London, and three other Brits in the IS execution squad, were said to have murdered 27 hostages.
Captives dubbed them The Beatles for their English accents, calling them John, George, Ringo and Paul — Davis’s nickname.
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Victims were beheaded on film by Mohamed Emwazi, 27 — Jihadi John, who was killed in a US drone strike in Syria in 2015.
The other gang members — Alexanda Kotey, 38, who was dubbed Jihadi George and El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, known as Jihadi Ringo — were jailed for life in the US in April.
Among those they killed were British aid workers David Haines, 44, Alan Henning, 47, and two US journalists.
Prof Ian Acheson, advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, said: “We must take responsibility for our own citizens suspected of serious terrorist offences overseas.
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“They need to be returned to this county and held accountable in our courts for their crimes and, if convicted, serve sentences here.
“We can and should use all legal methods at our disposal to send people from this country who travel abroad to commit acts of violent extremism to jail for a very long time.”