Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson - British 'Beatles' jihadis must pay the price for their barbaric crimes
The final two British members of ISIS's evil 'Beatles' execution gang have been captured in Syria.
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were part of the same terrorist cell as Jihadi John, were detained by US-allied Kurdish militia fighters in January.
Along with Aine Davis, they were part of a group named after the 60s band because of their English accents.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson hailed their capture. The South Staffordshire MP said: "These people have turned their backs on Britain, killed innocents and tried to bring terror to the streets of our country.
"I am glad they have been hunted down and now it is time for them to be held to account and pay the price for their barbaric crimes."
The four Londoners were linked to a string of hostage murders in Iraq and Syria during the bloody Islamist uprising.
US Officials said Kotey, 34, and Elsheikh, 29, were captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces during battles against the last remaining pockets of ISIS fighters near the river Euphrates on the Iraq/Syria border.
The men were reportedly identified by fingerprints and other biometric means.
Former child refugee Elsheikh was a mechanic from White City in west London, and Kotey was from Paddington.
In January 2017, US authorities named Kotey as a member of the cell and said they had imposed sanctions on him.
In a statement at the time, the State Department said Kotey was 'one of four members of an execution cell for... the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil)'.
It went on: "The notorious cell, dubbed 'The Beatles' and once headed by now-deceased Mohamed Emwazi (also known as Jihadi John), is responsible for holding captive and beheading approximately two dozen hostages, including several Westerners. Among them: American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and American aid worker Peter Kassig.
"As a guard for the cell, Kotey likely engaged in the group's executions and exceptionally cruel torture methods, including electronic shock and waterboarding.
"Kotey has also acted as an Isil recruiter and is responsible for recruiting several UK nationals to join the terrorist organisation."
Elsheikh, it said, 'was said to have earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions while serving as an Isis jailer'.
He travelled to Syria in 2012 and first joined al Qaeda's branch in the war-torn country.
His father, Rashid Sidahmed Elsheikh, a translator in London, said his son's radicalisation was 'lightning fast'.
His mother, Maha Elgigouli, said he was a 'very clever' and a 'nice boy'.
She said he had a daughter called Maha with a Syrian wife, and his first wife, an Ethopian woman from Canada, had joined them and had a son named after his brother Mahmoud, who died fighting for IS in Iraq last year.
Emwazi, who was killed in a US air strike in 2015, appeared in a number of videos in which captives including British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning were beheaded.
He went to state schools, then studied computer science at the University of Westminster before leaving for Syria in 2013.
The fourth member, Davis, is a former drug dealer. He was convicted of being a member of a terrorist organisation and jailed for seven-and-a-half years at a court in Silivri, Turkey, in May 2017.
