LONDON
\nA British-Egyptian man accused of fighting for Daesh has been found dead in prison.
\nAbdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, was on trial in Madrid charged with numerous terrorist offenses and online fraud in order to raise money for the group. He was found dead in his cell on Wednesday at El Puerto de Santa Maria prison in Cadiz.
\nHe was described by police as one of Daesh\u2019s \u201cmost wanted foreign terrorist fighters\u201d after a photograph emerged of him in Raqqa in 2014 holding the severed head of a Syrian regime soldier.
\nThe image, posted on social media, was accompanied by the caption: \u201cChillin\u2019 with my homie or what\u2019s left of him.\u201d
\nHe was stripped of his UK citizenship after joining the group, and was at one stage believed to have been \u201cJihadi John,\u201d a notorious British Daesh member wanted for the murder of several Western captives, later identified as Mohammed Emwazi.
\nAbdel Bary, a former rapper, was arrested in 2020 in Almeria, Spain, after leaving Syria in 2015.
\nHe was accused of forming a terrorist cell with two Algerians, Abderrezak Siddiki and Kossaila Cholluah, who police said planned to \u201ccommit any type of action related to their terrorist militancy.\u201d Prison sources said the cause of death had yet to be established, but Abdel Bary\u2019s body showed no signs of violence.
\nHis family has been informed, and have requested a second independent autopsy in addition to that set to be conducted by Spanish authorities.
\nHis father Adel Abdel Bary was jailed in 2015 in the US for 25 years for his part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people and wounded almost 5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON A British-Egyptian man accused of fighting for Daesh has been found dead in prison. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, was on trial in Madrid charged with numerous terrorist offenses and online fraud in order to raise money for the group. He was found dead in his cell on Wednesday at El Puerto de Santa Maria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n