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Where is Alexanda Kotey now? ISIS 'Beatle' serving life for killing US hostages vanishes from prison

Kotey was imprisoned in America after pleading guilty to eight charges related to the kidnapping, torture, and beheading of IS hostages in Syria
PUBLISHED JAN 12, 2023
Alexanda Kotey was sentenced to life in 2022 for each of the eight counts he pleaded guilty to (Syrian Democratic Forces)
Alexanda Kotey was sentenced to life in 2022 for each of the eight counts he pleaded guilty to (Syrian Democratic Forces)

CANAAN, PENNSYLVANIA: ISIS "Beatle" Alexanda Kotey, who was serving a life sentence for brutal murder and torture of American hostages, has escaped from the US prison system. Federal Bureau of Prisons records show that the 39-year-old is no longer incarcerated at the maximum-security Canaan Prison in Pennsylvania. Last year, the London native was imprisoned in America after pleading guilty in 2021 to eight charges related to the kidnapping, torture and beheading of Islamic State hostages in Syria.

Kotey's sudden disappearance has now caused fear and confusion among family members of his victims, including the daughter of a British aid worker he killed. Kotey, also known as "Jihadi George," was sent to Canaan in August after admitting to eight charges related to the kidnapping, torture and execution of hostages in Syria between 2012 and 2015.

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Kotey was a member of the "Beatles" terrorist group responsible for the murders and capture of more than two dozen Westerners nearly a decade ago after the Arab Spring erupted in Middle East Asia. The hostages called them "Beatles" because of their English accents. The sadistic individuals portrayed their extremism in their propaganda videos, in which victims were paraded in orange jumpsuits before being beheaded.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia G. Zachary Terwilliger speaks to the media about the case against two British ISIS militants dubbed
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia G Zachary Terwilliger speaks to the media about the case against two British ISIS militants dubbed 'The Beatles,' who appeared remotely in federal court on charges of torture and murder of four American hostages, on October 07, 2020 in Alexandria, Virginia. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh face eight criminal counts in the kidnapping and deaths of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The group is believed to have kidnapped and killed 27 people. Four Americans and two Britons, including aid worker David Haines, were murdered. His daughter, 24-year-old Bethany Haines, told the Record yesterday she believed Kotey was still in US custody. "In the past, he has been traceable, as we have access to data via the US victim notification scheme, and we at least had the reassurance that he was in a high security facility," she said. "I don't want to think that he has managed to negotiate his way into any kind of easy treatment on the basis of him assisting authorities or anything else."  Last June,  Haines met with Kotey face-to-face in Virginia where he told her how he had kidnapped her father and witnessed his execution. 



 

Where is Alexanda Kotey now?

Kotey accepted a plea deal that included 'cooperation requirements' and avoided serving his sentence at the ADX Florence prison in Colorado, also known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies". However, six months later he is listed as 'not in BOP custody' on the prison system's website. The present whereabouts of Kotey is not known. BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy confirmed to The Scottish Daily Record that "Alexanda Amon Kotey is not currently in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons."

A member of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) stand guarded in front of a ISIS flag in the border town of Jarablus, August 31, 2016, Syria. Turkish troops and Turkey-backed rebels have been fighting Kurdish-led forces and IS since Turkey's incursion into Syria on Aug. 24. with the swift capture of Jarablus, a town a few km inside Syria that was held by Islamic State.
A member of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) stand guarded in front of a ISIS flag in the border town of Jarablus, August 31, 2016, Syria (Defne Karadeniz/Getty Images)

According to Murphy, there could be various reasons why an inmate could be referenced as not in the system, but he did not reveal why Kotey received that designation. "Inmates who were previously in BOP custody and who have not completed their sentence may be outside BOP custody for a period of time for court hearings, medical treatment or for other reasons,", Murphy stated according to Daily Mail. He also noted that BOP does not provide specific details about an inmate due to his "safety, security, or privacy reasons."

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