article_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi mixed with a violent street gang who used stun guns to target wealthy victims in London’s Mayfair, it has emerged.
article_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi also had childhood links to other Islamic extremists who went on to join terror groups in Syria and Somalia.
article_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi was known to associate with Choukri Ellekhlifi – a member of a masked gang which preyed on rich targets in a series of violent attacks.
article_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi was a known associate to Choukri Elleklifi (right) - a member of a masked gang which preyed on rich targets in a series of violent attacks in London .
article_snippet: But Mohammed Emwazi fled to join an Al Qaeda group in Syria before Mohammed Emwazi could be brought to justice, and was killed by government forces near Aleppo in August 2013.
article_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi and Mohammed Emwazi were
article_snippet: He and Emwazi said to have fallen under the sway of extremists while He and Emwazi were at secondary school, before Mohammed Emwazi was further radicalised by hate preachers Mohammed Emwazi encountered at Westminster University.
article_snippet: School contemporaries claimed Mohammed Emwazi was involved in regular fights and the ‘borderline stalking’ of a female classmate.
article_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi was said to have dressed like a ‘gangster rapper’ as a teenager and to have experimented with alcohol and cannabis, before being radicalised by fanatical Islamists in Mohammed Emwazi late teens.
article_snippet: It is thought the toxic combination of their preaching and the violence Mohammed Emwazi was exposed to through Mohammed Emwazi association with Ellekhlifi may have fuelled Mohammed Emwazi own descent into hate-filled brutality.
article_snippet: Ellekhlifi and two friends committed eight robberies against wealthy victims in Mayfair, central London, in the space of a few days in July 2012 – not long before Mohammed Emwazi travelled to Syria and joined Islamic State.
article_snippet: Emwazi has also been linked to radical hate preachers who taught ‘white widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite and the Woolwich killers Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo.
article_snippet: As well as Emwazi and gangster Choukri Ellekhlifi, former pupil
highlights_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi had links to violent street gang of muggers in London .
  
highlights_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi also had childhood links to other Islamic extremists now in Syria .
  