Alleged ‘IS Beatle’ Aine Davis pleads guilty to terrorism charges

A man who was once linked to an Islamic State cell nicknamed the Beatles has pleaded guilty to charges of possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes and funding terrorism.

Aine Davis, 39, appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from Belmarsh Prison on Monday.

He has already served a prison sentence in Turkey for being a member of the Islamic State group and was arrested on arrival back in the UK last August.

Davis will be sentenced on 13 November.

At one point he was suspected of being a member of the gang who were called the Beatles by their captives.

There has been no attempt to put Davis on trial for being a member of the kidnap gang either in the UK or the US, even though at one point the then Home Secretary Priti Patel was asking the US to extradite him and prosecute him.

The gang became infamous for videoing the beheading of their British, American and European hostages.

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