British Isis terrorist who joined 'The Beatles' jihadi group jailed for eight years
He knew the British terrorist Jihadi John
Metropolitan Police
A suspected member of the Isis death squad dubbed "The Beatles" has been jailed for eight years for committing terror offences.
Aine Davis, 39, who was associated with the British terrorist Jihadi John, was sentenced today at the Old Bailey for fundraising after he tried to get his wife to send him 20,000 euros (£17,460).
Last month, he also admitted to possession of a firearm.
He was sentenced to eight years - six years for the firearm and two for the fundraising charge.
Court artist sketch of Davis during his trial
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Both offences come under the Terrorism Act.
The charges against him date back 10 years to 2013 and 2014, when he was in Syria for 2 years.
Last year, Davis was arrested at Luton Airport after being deported from Turkey.
He had previously served a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for being a member of Isis.
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The 39-year-old has always denied being connected with "The Beatles" - an Isis cell who all have British accents.
The group tortured and beheaded Western hostages in Syria.
One of the members, Mohammed Emwazi, more commonly known as Jihadi John, was killed in a drone strike in 2015.
He featured in several videos produced by Isis which depicted the beheading of captives, including British journalist David Haines and British aid worker Alan Henning in 2014.
Two other Beatles members, British nationals El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, are serving life sentences in US prisons.
Davis relocated to Syria in 2013 to join the conflict.
Davis is suspected of being a member of "The Beatles" - an Isis cell who all have British accents
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Prior to this, he had become a committed Islamist extremist and attended the same West London mosque as Jihadi John.
His legal team had claimed US authorities had accepted there was no fourth Beatle while the Court of Appeal noted any plan to extradite him there was "short-lived and discounted".
Davis' legal team have stated that US authorities concluded that there was no fourth Beatles member.
Making no reference to "The Beatles", Mark Summers KC issued an apology to the Syrian people on Davis's behalf saying he "did more harm than good".
Summers said: "The reality he found when he arrived in Syria was profoundly different to anything he had ever imagined. What he thought he could achieve personally in a war zone transpired to be wholly and completely naive.
"Very little involved helping people of Syria. It involved most of the time in-fighting and schisms."
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