(Sky News) Freed hostages were able to give British police key information identifying an IS kidnap gang nicknamed “The Beatles” which had held and tortured them, Scotland Yard has revealed.
Officers have disclosed key breakthroughs that allowed them to identify the jihadis and bring two of them to trial in the US.
It included vital details from freed hostages that helped police identify the men on a march with a group linked to the radical group al-Muhajiroun, as well as the use of voice recognition software.
The group were nicknamed “The Beatles” by their hostages because of their British accents.
Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, first featured in a video released by IS in 2014, showing a masked man with a British accent shooting a prisoner.
