‘ISIS Beatle’ appears in court charged with terror offences after landing in Luton
A BRIT who allegedly belongs to beheading group the "ISIS Beatles" today appeared in court charged with terror offences.
Aine Davis, 38, was arrested by counter terror cops on Wednesday evening after being freed from a Turkish prison.
He was deported to England by Turkish authorities after serving seven-and-a-half years for terror offences.
After touching down at Luton Airport cops quizzed him over his activities in Syria.
Bearded Davis appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today accused of recruiting one of his wife’s friends to smuggle £21,000 from the UK into Turkey in January 2014.
He is also charged with possessing a rifle between July 2013 and January 2014, which prosecutors say he intended to use in a terrorist act.
Davis was remanded in custody to next appear the Old Bailey on September 2 for a pre-trial hearing.
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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.
Victims were beheaded on film by Mohamed Emwazi, 27 — Jihadi John, who was killed in a US drone strike in Syria in 2015.
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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.
“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.”
