Syria crisis: British rapper turned Isis fighter posts image of himself holding severed head

A successful British rapper who left his west London home to join Isis in Syria is reported to have posted a photograph of himself holding a severed head on Twitter.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, reportedly uploaded the image with the caption: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him”.

Bary is a former rapper who had his music played on Radio 1 before walking out of his family home in Maida Vale, west London, last year to join Isis fighters in Syria.

It is believed the photograph was taken in the Syrian city of Raqqa, although as .............to complete this story