A jihadi who fled the UK in as a teenager has been found living in a cramped Syrian jail for ISIS prisoners.
Aseel Muthana, 22, was presumed dead after travelling fmo Cardiff to the war-torn country in 2015, aged 17.
He left the Welsh capital alongside brother Nasser Muthana and a friend, Reeyad Khan, and together the three appeared in a sinister propaganda film beamed round the world.
But Aseel has now been found in a prison in northern Syria alongside thousands of other captured ISIS fanatics.
He claimed he was conned into going to Syria by so-called ISIS propaganda which claimed he would be helping Syria's poor by fighting for on their side.
He said: “Back then when I first came to ISIS, you have to understand I came way before the caliphate was pronounced.
"Before all of these beheading videos, before all of the burnings happened, before any of that stuff.
"We came when Isis propaganda and ISIS media was all about helping the poor, helping the Syrian people.”
“We stuck with the people you know from the UK and from Wales.... the Welsh guys... me and my brother and Reeyad [Khan].”
He also urged his mother, Umm Ami, to “try to stay strong” adding “what’s happened has happened and we both believe in Allah and we believe that Allah will make a way out.”
She said: "My little boy went seduced [by ISIS] and brainwashed with ideas that were not his.
"So that he doesn’t know what is right and what is wrong dominated and lead by his emotions.
"My boy was gentle and merciful and didn’t know violence and harshness.
"Have compassion for our situation."
Kurdish officials fear the prison where Muthana is being held might become a target itself after the leader of so-called IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, urged his remaining followers to try to free the group’s members from the prisons where they are being held.
