A British Isis member has been found dead in his prison cell in Madrid.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, had been on trial in Spain on suspicion of terrorism.
He was being tried at court for leading a jihadist terrorist cell that he reportedly formed after he left Syria.
Bary, along with two Algerian men, was arrested in April 2020 in Spain.
The Isis fighter was detained in Spain in April 2020 after being smuggled into the country
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His alleged accomplices were named before the trial as Abderrazak Seddiki, 30, and Kossaila Chollouah, 27.
They had been smuggled onto a beach along the country’s south-east coastline less than a week prior to their arrest.
They were arrested in Almeria, Spain, after hiding out at a rented flat.
The British-Egyptian man was found dead at El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, south-west Spain.
An unconfirmed local report said his body had no signs of any apparent violence.
An internal Spanish Prison service investigation will now take place and his family will be given the right to hold their own autopsy alongside the official post-mortem.
The former Londoner was described by police as one of Isis’s “most wanted foreign terrorist fighters”
Bary gained notoriety in 2014 when a photo uploaded on social media showed him allegedly holding the head of a Syrian regime soldier.
The picture showed him posing in Raqqa, known as the terrorist group’s capital.
The caption read: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.”
He was a key suspect believed to be the ISIS killer ‘Jihadi’ John.
The terrorist, named later as Mohammed Emwazi, gained notoriety when he filmed his beheading of American journalist James Foley.
The rapper has been described by police as one of Isis’s “most wanted foreign terrorist fighters”.He was stripped of his British citizenship after joining the terrorist group.
Before his trial, Bary was warned that he could face nine years in Prison if convicted.
On the first day of the trial at Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court, he denied all terrorism charges put against him.
He insisted that he had never been to Raqqa, in Syria however later said he decided to go to the country for humanitarian reasons.
“It is not true what is said. I did not travel to Syria to protect Islam, nor to fight. I travelled for humanitarian reasons,” Bary said as he denied the charges.
He added: “My family and I lived in the UK for over 30 years. I have completely adopted the western lifestyle . . . I believe in freedom of belief. And regarding Isis or al-Qaeda, my feeling is hate. I don’t agree with its ideology or actions.”
Prosecutors also accused him of using bitcoin to buy stolen or cloned banks cards on the Dark Web.
His father was Adel Abdel Bary, an Egyptian man who was jailed in 2015 for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The former Londoner moved to the UK when his family applied for political asylum when Bary was a child.
Before his radicalisation, he was a rapper going by the name of L Jinny, and some of his music was played on Radio 1.
