A CONVICTED member of The Beatles IS execution gang is living “in the lap of luxury” in a British jail, The Sun can reveal.
Aine Davis, 41 — “Jihadi Paul” — is allowed the highest level of privileges including access to a football pitch and money for the prison canteen.
PA:Press AssociationAine Davis, known as ‘Jihadi Paul’ is living ‘in the lap of luxury’ in a British jail[/caption]
PADavis is an ‘enhanced’ category prisoner at HMP Whitemoor[/caption]
As an “enhanced” category lag, he has Freeview TV in his en-suite single cell and use of the shop at high security HMP Whitemoor in Cambs, where almost half the 320 inmates are Muslim.
Londoner Davis is also entitled to extra phone calls and gym visits and has access to workshops and Open University courses.
The Muslim convert got eight years for terror offences in 2023 after being deported from Turkey.
We told last month how fellow terrorist El Shafee Elsheikh, 37 — “Jihadi Ringo” — wants a transfer to the UK from a US supermax jail.
It’s not right he gets a nice life playing football and getting special privileges
Bethany Haines
Among the IS cell’s 20-plus Westerner victims in 2014 and 2015 — seven of whom were beheaded — was British aid worker David Haines, 44, who was killed in Syria.
His daughter Bethany, 28, said: “Aine Davis was involved with some of the most dangerous people in IS.
“It’s not right he gets a nice life playing football and getting special privileges.
“What message does that send about the Government’s treatment of people who turned their back on the UK to go to Syria to join IS?
“Will El Shafee Elsheikh get kickabouts and trips to a shop if he’s let in?”
Bethany, who met “Jihadi George” Alexanda Kotey, 41, in the US in 2022 as part of his plea deal, added: “He told me Davis spoke to the hostages including my father and tried to convert them.
“He’s a dangerous man.”
Despite his status, Davis is refused IT access or contact with under-18s as he poses a danger of radicalisation.
It’s shocking, given his background that he’s at Whitemoor as there’s been past warnings about Islamists trying to radicalise non-Muslims
A source
A source said: “Apart from this, Jihadi Paul is living in the lap of luxury.
“It’s no wonder Jihadi Ringo has applied for a transfer.
“Conditions are cushy compared to the States.”
‘PAST WARNINGS’
He added: “It’s shocking, given his background that he’s at Whitemoor as there’s been past warnings about Islamists trying to radicalise non-Muslims.”
Davis denies being a member of The Beatles — a nickname given by captives due to their Brit accents.
Fourth member and leader Mohammed Emwazi, 27 — known as Jihadi John’ — died in a drone strike in 2015.
The Prison Service did not comment on Davis
Andrew BarrDavid Haines’ daughter Bethany, 28, said: ‘Aine Davis was involved with some of the most dangerous people in IS’[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
