Jihadi John's mum watched beheading on TV as she screamed ''this is my son''

Jihadi John’s mum told police she immediately realised her son was the brutal IS killer when she watched the first hostage beheading video.

Mohammed Emwazi, 26, was last week identified as the masked Islamic State executioner who has murdered aid workers and journalists.

Ghaneya Emwazi, 47, recognised her eldest child as the knife-wielding fanatic in the horrific propaganda film in which James Foley was murdered.

Her husband Jasem said: “She was shocked. She became frantic and started screaming, ‘This is my son’.”

Emwazi’s parents were questioned by Kuwaiti police this weekend after he was named as the sick IS militant.

The IS killer’s father also told Kuwaiti police that he last heard from his son in 2013, when he called them from Turkey and said he was travelling to Syria to volunteer for humanitarian work.

Although Mrs Emwazi has confirmed that she immediately recognised her son’s voice from the gruesome footage of Foley’s filmed murder, she did not say when the actual viewing took place.

Emwazi, now 26, attempted to join al-Shabaab in Somalia after finishing his university course in London in 2009, but was refused entry to Tanzania and returned to Britain. He later travelled to Syria.

...DailyMirror