Alexanda Kotey, a former member of the Islamic State group, jailer and executioner of several Western hostages, was sentenced on Friday in the United States to life in prison. Prosecutors have pledged to facilitate his transfer to the UK within 15 years. One of the cruel "Beatles" of the Islamic State (IS) , jihadists specializing in the capture, torture and execution of Western hostages, was sentenced on Friday April 29 to life imprisonment by a federal court in the United States . Alexanda Kotey, a 38-year-old former British national, pleaded guilty in September , admitting responsibility for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria and, more broadly, for the abuse endured by their prisoners. Another member of the "Beatles" cell, nicknamed by the hostages because of a British accent, El Shafee el-Sheikh, arrested with him by Syrian Kurdish forces in 2018, was found guilty in April by a jury popular , after a trying trial that had exposed their sadism in broad