Parents of a US humanitarian worker killed by the Islamic State begged for her life in emails to her captors, a court has heard.
Kayla Mueller, 26, was one of several people who died at the hands of a Syria-based IS terror cell dubbed the Beatles due to their British accents.
On Tuesday, her mother Marsha spoke at the federal trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, known as “Jihadi George”.
He has denied charges of hostage-taking and conspiracy to murder.
Mr Elsheikh, the only one of the four men to face trial in the US as part of the notorious cell, has been linked to at least 27 abductions, but has asserted that he was not part of the group.
The Sudanese-born Londoner, who was stripped of his British citizenship in 2018, is accused of taking hostages, resulting in the deaths of four Americans – Ms Mueller, journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig.
