Mohammed Emwazi was pawn in Isis's stupid game, says victim's daughter

A French journalist held by Islamic State has described Mohammed Emwazi as a man without scruple “who hit and tortured without the slightest restraint”, as victims’ families described mixed reactions to the US strike that targeted the British-born militant.

Speaking on Friday after the Pentagon confirmed US forces had carried out a drone strike targeting Emwazi, Didier François, a journalist for French radio station Europe 1, said the Kuwaiti-born Briton had been one of the jailers in charge of 19 western hostages taken by Isis in Syria in 2013.

There was a group of four British jailers and Emwazi had been the head of them, he added. “He was most probably one of the worst, who hit and tortured without the slightest restraint,” François told Europe 1.