British Islamic State fighter found dead in Spanish jail

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bari was arrested in Almería, southern Spain, in April 2020, along with two other alleged members of the Islamic State. Credit: SWNS

The London-raised jihadist who posted photos of himself with his head cut off in Syria was found dead in his prison cell in Spain, where he was charged with belonging to the Islamic State.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bari, 32, was arrested in Almeria in southern Spain in April 2020 along with two other alleged IS members.

On Wednesday, his lifeless body was found in his cell at a prison in El Puerto de Santa Maria. in Cadiz, in southern Spain, where he awaited the verdict. One unconfirmed report says that there was no indication that he was subjected to violence.

Bary was tried with two Algerians for belonging to a terrorist organization. The presiding judge warned him that if convicted, he could face nine years in prison.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary sits in the dock during the first hearing at the Audiencia National Court in Madrid, Spain. Credit: Javier Lison/Shutterstock

The Prison Service launches an investigation into his death.

The up-and-coming rapper who grew up in Maida Vale, north London, Bury held joint British-Egyptian citizenship before traveling to Syria in 2013 year.

The UK government stripped him of his British citizenship after he posted a selfie on social media. Media about him holding a severed head in Raqqa, the capital of the IS caliphate at the time.

The 32-year-old was last seen in Turkey in 2015 and then disappeared until he was arrested in Spain in 2020. a week after he and two Algerian companions entered Europe, posing as economic migrants, on a boat from the coast of the North African country.

Abdel Majed Abdel Bari posing with a gun Photo: SWNS

Bari, Abderrazak Seddiqui and Kosaila Chollua were found in a rented apartment by the Spanish police and secret service agency CNI.

According to evidence found in the apartment and on their mobile phones, the three men formed a cell in Turkey sometime in 2015 or shortly thereafter.

The investigation showed that he financed the relocation of a cell of three to Europe by committing massive bank card fraud, renting several properties upon arrival in Spain.

Among the photos stored on his phone, Bary had three entry visas to Sudan to Syrian names. When he was arrested, he introduced himself as a Syrian citizen named Ahmed Mohamed Al Oulabi.

Bari's father is Egyptian Islamic extremist Adel Abdul Bari, who was extradited to the United States and imprisoned for his part in the 1998 terror. attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 123 people.