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Christopher Bucktin

ISIS 'Beatle' is moved to supermax prison after mental health appeal fails

ISIS “Beatle” El Shafee Elsheikh faces dying alone in a 7ft by 12ft cell after being moved to the US’s toughest supermax prison.

He was sentenced in August to a full-life stretch, but the 34-year-old Brit avoided being sent to ADX Florence in Colorado, claiming he suffered from poor mental health.

But after being assessed, he was moved there earlier this month and is now in solitary confinement in the jail dubbed the “Alcatraz of the Rockies”.

A US prison insider said: “Elsheikh will rot in the closest thing America has to hell on Earth. He is now exactly where he belongs.”

El Shafee Elsheikh faces dying alone in a 7ft by 12ft cell in Colorado prison (AFP via Getty Images)

Elsheikh, nicknamed Ringo, was one of four terrorists in an IS cell in Iraq and Syria dubbed the Beatles by their captors due to their British accents.

The cell killed dozens of aid workers and journalists, showing their beheadings online.

Two other Brits, shoe bomber Richard Reid, 49, and hate preacher Abu Hamza, 64, are also held in ­Florence, where lags spend 23 or more hours a day in soundproofed cells with a four-inch slit for a window.

Robert Hood, a former prison warden, once said: “This place is not designed for humanity.”

Elsheikh’s move to Florence comes as Michael Kurilla, top commander for US forces in the Middle East, warned IS’s Khorasan Province, known as ISIS-K, would be able to launch attacks on Britain and Europe within the next six months.

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