They were advised to leave their £600,000 council house for their own safety, and now his mother is living at a secret location under police protection along with four out of his five brothers and sisters.

Meawhile, his father and eldest sister are in Kuwait.

The Sunday Times reports that Emwazi had sent an apology via a third party for the ‘problems and trouble the revelation of his identity has caused’. 

In the Islamic faith it is believed that those who disobey or disrespect their parents are more likely to go to hell.