London man says young boy in ISIL execution video is his grandson

In the video, released through ISIS channels on January 3, a group of ISIS militants led by a masked man with a British accent execute five supposed British spies.

He lived in Walthamstow, east London, and reportedly ran a business renting out bouncy castles before converting and becoming radicalised.

Dhar is also associated with radical British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, who is scheduled to go on trial for terrorism charges next week. Mohammed Emwazi, aka “Jihadi John”, had also been pictured in several videos showing beheadings of western hostages.

Meanwhile, reports claimed a young child seen at the end of the video dressed in military-style clothes and wearing a black headscarf with an IS logo on it was Isa Dare, the son of jihadi bride Grace “Khadijah” Dare, from Lewisham, south-east London.

United Kingdom police have been accused of a major security blunder after a letter revealed the man believed to be the new Jihadi John was released on bail when he travelled to Syria.

“The system failed because it allowed him to go to Syria, even though he was well known to authorities and had been arrested six times on terror-related offenses”, Burnham said.

As security services try to identify the Briton featured in the latest Islamic State video, there is speculation it may be jihadist Siddhartha Dhar. I just can not say.

Dhar, who was previously a Sikh and inflatable castle salesman, later posted an image of himself holding a rifle and his newborn child – his fourth – on Twitter as he announced his arrival in Syria. “The eyebrows are bushy and this guy is taller, my brother is shorter and he has got broader shoulders, but he has got stooped shoulders so I don’t think it is”. Siddhartha Dhar, also known as Abu Rumaysah, had skipped bail and fled Britain in 2014 with his wife and their four children to join the ISIS in Syria. “I need my grandchildren, my daughter, I need them back”. “I am Muslim first, second and last”.

A former associate of Dhar identified Dhar as the man in the video, and in an interview with the BBC, Dhar’s sister said she thought the voice from the video “resembled” that of her brother. “I don’t know how high up the list this person was – I suspect not very near the top”.

He said Dhar had never struck him as violent, and had always been friendly.

“My message would be to stop the aggression against Muslims in the caliphate and I believe that if they don’t do that, that Barack Obama will have much more blood on his hands”, he added. Shiraz Maher, senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, told Sky News that he was “in a minority of people saying I’m not convinced that it is him”.