Report: ‘Jihadi John’ contemplated suicide in 2010

A file pix of "Jihadi John" - AFP PHOTO / HO / SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP

LONDON: The London man believed to be Islamic State executioner “Jihadi John” told a journalist four years ago that surveillance by British security services had left him contemplating suicide, it emerged Saturday. 

Mohammed Emwazi, named by media and experts as the militant thought to have beheaded at least five Western hostages held by the IS group, told the Mail on Sunday reporter that he felt like a “dead man walking”.