Police, according to the
BBC, found video footage of the beheading, including books and media files, when they conducted searches in 2007 and 2010 in premises linked to Mr. Ahmed Faraz, in Sparkhill area of Birmingham. Ahmed Faraz, according to
The Irish Times, also kept in his premises, video footage of 81 other beheadings.
Birmingham Post reported Ahmed Faraz first appeared before a magistrate court on charges of terrorism in 2010. The man, who holds a degree in Islamic studies from the University of Birmingham, was charged with 30 counts of possessing and distributing materials for "priming people for terrorism." He has, however, denied the charges.
The
BBC reports prosecutors showed jurors part of the video footage, including the beheading of the 62 year old Briton Ken Bigley.
Islamic terrorist group Tawhid and Jihad, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, kidnapped
Kenneth John Bigley, a civil engineer, and British citizen, in al-Mansour district of Baghdad, on 16 September 2004, along with Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, while working for a Kuwaiti company in Iraq. On September 18, the terrorists released a video in which they threatened to kill the men if Iraqi women prisoners held by coalition forces were not released in 48 hours. In spite of the intervention of the Muslim Council of Britain, the first man, Eugene Armstrong, was beheaded on September 20 when the deadline expired. Jack Hensley was beheaded 24 hours later, and Bigley two weeks later. The videos of the killings were posted on the Internet.
