Advanced analysis of fragments of information enabled Scotland Yard to identify three jihadis who held and tortured captives
Freed hostages were able to give British police vital information that identified three of the Islamic State kidnap gang that had held and tortured them in Syria, it has been revealed.
Scotland Yard has disclosed the breakthroughs that allowed it to identify three of the jihadis known as “the Beatles” and bring two of them to trial in the US. The hostages’ information helped police identify the men on a march with a group linked to the radical group al-Muhajiroun, together with the use of voice recognition software.
