LONDON: Alexanda Kotey, one of many so-called Daesh “Beatles” serving a life sentence for the torture and homicide of Western hostages, has disappeared from the US jail system, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

Kotey was imprisoned within the US in August 2022 after pleading responsible to eight costs associated to the kidnapping, torture and killing of Daesh hostages in Syria between 2012 and 2015. 

The 39-year-old Londoner was the fourth member of an extremist cell that held as much as two dozen Westerners captive. Hostages dubbed the group the “Beatles” due to their English accents.

Kotey was despatched to Pennsylvania’s high-security Canaan jail, thought to be “one of the most dangerous penitentiaries in the country,” in keeping with the Daily Mail.

However, Federal Bureau of Prisons information have not too long ago revealed that he’s not being held at Canaan. 

A prisons spokesperson instructed the Daily Mail on Thursday that Kotey isn’t at present within the custody of the bureau, however didn’t clarify why. 

The official stated that there are “several reasons” an inmate may be listed as not being within the system. 

“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,” the spokesperson stated. 

The bureau added that it doesn’t disclose particular particulars about an inmate as a result of “safety, security or privacy reasons.”

The “Beatles” group is believed to have kidnapped and killed 27 folks, together with British help employee David Haines. Propaganda movies posted on-line confirmed victims paraded in orange jumpsuits earlier than being beheaded.

Haines’ daughter Bethany, 24, instructed the Daily Record on Wednesday that Kotey is most probably “assisting authorities” with investigations into one other case. 

“I don’t think it is right that he can just disappear from the system and the families whose lives were devastated by his actions are left to wonder where he is,” she stated.

“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 added. 

After being captured by Kurdish militia in Syria in January 2018, Kotey was handed over to American forces in Iraq in 2020 and later confronted trial within the US over the killing of 4 American hostages. In trade for his extradition, US authorities agreed to not search the dying penalty.

Kotey accepted a plea deal that included “cooperation requirements” to keep away from serving his life sentence on the ADX Florence jail in Colorado, dubbed the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”