A lifer who murdered the brother of gangland boss Tam McGraw has been given another year behind bars after attacking guards with a razor blade.
12.01.2023 - 04:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The daughter of murdered Scot David Haines has told of her anger that the Isis terrorist who abducted her dad has “disappeared” from the US penal system.
Alexanda Kotey - one of four depraved 'Isis Beatles' - is no longer traceable in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, America’s federal corrections system.
There are fears he may be helping US intelligence services with information on his Isis colleagues in an attempt to get out of jail.
Now Bethany Haines has hit out, demanding Kotey see out his full life sentence in a maximum security facility.
Kotey last year told Bethany, 24, at a face-to-face meeting that it was him who abducted her dad and that he witnessed his torture and murder.
Bethany, from Perth, said: “I was made aware that Kotey had disappeared from the system and it has been impossible to trace where he is.
“That doesn’t seem right because I don’t want to think that he has managed to negotiate his way into any kind of easy treatment on the basis of him assisting authorities or anything else.
“In the past he has been traceable, as we have access to data via the US victim notification scheme, and we at least had the reassurance that he was in a high security facility.
“The last we heard he was in a maximum security jail in Pennsylvania, which is renowned for violence, and I was fine with that because I don’t want to hear about him getting any easy time.
“I don’t think it is right that he can just disappear from the system and the families whose lives were devastated by his actions are left to wonder where he is.”
Bethany was forced to make inquiries with US justice sources to get reassurance that he was still detained somewhere in the country.
The "Isis Beatles" - made up of four Brits - are believed to have abducted
A lifer who murdered the brother of gangland boss Tam McGraw has been given another year behind bars after attacking guards with a razor blade.
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