The Islamic State terrorist known as 'Jihadi John ' was expelled from Tanzania for being drunk and disorderly on a flight from Amsterdam , the Times has reported . In May 2009 , Mohammed Emwazi reportedly indulged in a ten-hour drinking binge to the country en route to Somalia . It conflicts with earlier reports which claimed the 26-year-old was kicked out of the capital Dar es Salaam after the country 's authorities were tipped off by MI6 . The man who found infamy by fronting a string of brutal execution videos was allegedly traveling with two companions believed to be hellbent on waging jihad . 'Jihadi John ' : Mohammed Emwazi was expelled from Tanzania in 2009 for being drunk and disorderly on a flight from Amsterdam . Detained : The trio landed at Dar es Salaam airport at 10.50am on May 22 , 2009 and after being detained on arrival , they were formally booked into the airport 's police station at 1am . Binge : The Times has reported that Emwazi ( pictured ) and two other men indulged in a 10-hour drinking session on their way to Dar es Salaam en route to Somalia . Jerome Starkey also reports he was traveling to the Tanzanian capital with Ali Adorus , another suspect known to British intelligence services after he was jailed in Ethiopia for terrorism offences . 20 at the time , Emwazi was the youngest of three travel companions made up of Adorus , 27 , and a German man from Tanzania known as Marcel Schrodl , 23 , who told police he was a translator . The London-born executioner later told the prisoners ' rights group Cage he was traveling to Africa to go on Safari . They traveled at a time when Tanzania 's borders were easily crossed by jihadists who wanted to join the terror group al-Shabaab , the Times reports . The pilot of the KLM flight they were on warned immigration staff at the airport the trio were causing trouble , the country 's home affairs minister has said . It landed at 10.50am on May 22 , 2009 and after being detained on arrival , they were formally booked into the airport 's police station at 1am . Mr Chikawe claimed MI6 had no role in their expulsion from the country - insisting that the men were expelled at 8am that same morning for drunkenness . He said : 'They were refused entry because they disembarked from the plane very drunk . ' 'They were insulting our immigration staff and other people . They failed to explain why they had come to Tanzania . ' Tip-off : The pilot reportedly phoned ahead to inform the airport 's security staff of their behaviour . Deported : They were held for questioning in the airport in Tanzania and put on a flight back to Europe at 8am the next morning . He added that other passengers on the flight which made a scheduled stop at Kilimanjaro airport confirmed the men were causing problems in the air . 'The immigration department put them in custody on advice from the pilot that he would not carry them back to Amsterdam , ' he said . 'There was no information from anywhere that they were criminal suspects . ' Previous reports have suggested that British authorities tipped off security officers in Dar es Salaam because they believed they were trying to join militants al-Shabaab . After being kicked out of Tanzania , the men were questioned in Amesterdam and Dover and later complained about their treatment to Cage . Adorus - whose wife lives in north-London with their child - has since been imprisoned in Ethiopia on terror-related offences . Warning : The pilot on the KLM filight from Amsterdam phoned the security officials in Dar es Salaam to warn them about the trio who had been causing trouble . The British man who claimed to be visiting family in the African nation was sentenced to four and a half years in January . But Cage - which has denied accusations that it sympathising with extremists - says he signed a 'false confession ' under torture . It petitioned then-foreign secretary William Hague expressing concern about the conditions Adorus was being held under . The immigration officer who was on duty that night did not mention drunkenness but said officers were suspicious when the men 'had some queries about their visa forms ' , Starkey writes . He said : 'Before the passport scan you have to fill out a form . They had some queries about that form and , when we pressed them hard , Emwazi and his colleagues could not respond to our questions , so we took them to the airport police . ' A Tanzanian intelligence official said 'there was no stop order ' from British intelligence and officials at Interpol also confirmed they had no records of an alert for Emwazi . Now 26 , he is known globally as the man who beheaded a number of ISIS hostages including American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff - and Britons David Haines and Alan Henning . In a ­series of emails sent to activists at Cage , Emwazi claimed that he was beaten and abused in Tanzanian custody . A Cage statement said : 'The men were threatened with beatings and held for days in inhumane conditions , only to be told that MI5 was behind their rejection from the country . '
Mohammed Emwazi flew to Dar es Salaam en route to Somalia in May 2009 . He traveled with two men , One of whom was known to intelligence services . Trio failed to explain why they were in Somalia , home affairs minister said . The trio were drunk when they disembarked and insulted immigration staff . It contradicts reports that MI6 alerted security services about their arrival . one of Emwazi 's travel companions has since been imprisOned in Ethiopia .