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How Jihadi John tricked victims into calmness before beheadings

A former member of Islamic State has claimed Jihadi John would stage mock executions to prepare his beheading victims by saying nothing would happen to them.

A man named only as Saleh told Sky News the masked militant who appears in several beheading videos was a senior figure in the extremist organisation responsible for murdering foreign captives.

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