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Former Home Secretary ‘begged’ US to take British terror suspect Aine Davis, court told
A court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Aine Leslie Davis, 39, who was once suspected of being part of a death squad dubbed The Beatles from the so-called Islamic State, has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to having a firearm for terrorism purposes and two offences of funding terrorism, October 16, 2023

PRITI Patel begged the US to take on the prosecution of a man previously suspected of being a member of the so-called Beatles Isis cell, a court was told.

The then-home secretary’s “extraordinary” intervention was made in a legal argument over Aine Davis’s case at the Old Bailey in March. 

The court heard British authorities connived in the deportation of the Londoner from Turkey with a view to him being extradited onwards to the United States to face fresh charges there.

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