Aziz fled Britain to join Islamic State after being jailed for stabbing a man

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Father-of-four Abu Rahin Aziz, from Luton, fled from the UK after he was handed a 36-week jail sentence for stabbing a football fan with a pen.

The 32-year-old said on Twitter that he had stabbed the man for “insulting the Prophet Mohammed”.

But over the weekend ISIS supporters posted reports online that he had been killed in a US drone strike, using his pseudonym Abu Abdullah al-Britani.

He was reportedly killed on Saturday near Raqqa in Syria, which is considered a stronghold for the terrorist group.

It comes as the Government aims to expand Britain’s actions against ISIS to include Syria as well as Iraq.