Report: Jihadi John's family milked Britain’s housing benefits for 20 years

An arrangement of British daily newspapers photographed in London on February 27, 2015 shows the front-page headlines and stories regarding the identification of the masked IS group militant dubbed "Jihadi John". - AFP

PETALING JAYA: The family of Islamic State (IS) terrorist Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed “Jihadi John”, lived on British taxpayers’ money for the most part of 20 years under the country’s housing benefits programme.

UK’s The Daily Mail reported Monday that Emwazi and his family, who had sought asylum in London after fleeing Kuwait in the early ’90s, lived in homes costing up to £450 (RM2,500) a week.