A former drug dealer who posed with severed heads in a recruitment video for an Islamic State faction faked his own death in order to return to Britain.
Imran Khawaja, 27, appeared in a number of disturbing recruitment videos for an organisation called Rayat al-Tawheed, which included calls to join the jihad and “start taking heads off”.
Khawaja, a former bodybuilder from Southall, west London, was filmed wearing a black mask and holding a severed head in one hand and a bloodied knife in the other. Another head can be seen lying beside him in a cart.
His convictions for preparing acts of terrorism, attending a place used for terrorist training, receiving training in the use of firearms and possessing a firearm for preparing an