ITV The mother of murderous jihadist appears on This Morning

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Thomas Evans was "a normal little boy with great sense of humour who was warm and caring," his mother Sally told Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden. His brother Michael joined her on the daily topical show where he explained: "We were good friends and grew up with the same friends - until he converted."

Thomas' family said they began to notice changes in him after he split with his girlfriend. Soon after, his parents' marriage broke down and the teenager turned to the gym where he made a group of Muslim friends. Later, he converted to Islam, which his mother said she was "happy" for him to do.

ITV Amanda Holden and Phillip Schofield were bewildered by the devastating tale

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"I just wanted him to focus his life again," she added. "But later he changed. The spark had gone out of him; he lost his enjoyment for life; he couldn't listen to music - all the things that young boys do." Thomas then began "preaching" to his loved ones and discouraged them from their ways of living. But they took a stance, said Sally: "I wouldn't change the way I cook or anything to please him. He wouldn't even use my pots and pans." Thomas changed his name to Abdul Hakim and fled to Somalia, where he killed dozens of innocents and beheaded his victims under the terrifying guise White Beast. Sally and Michael had no idea of the monster their son became and would go months without hearing from him at all.

ITV Thomas' brother Michael insisted they were close growing up

Tragically, in 2011, a phone call form a journalist confirmed every parent's worst nightmare. Thomas had been killed and Sally was left with nothing but photographs on Twitter to identify him. Two weeks later, ITV News were in contact with footage of her son in action, and the unfathomable reality hit home. Amanda asked: "How do you grieve your son when you know of all the awful things he's done?"

ITV Sally said she has thinks of her son as two compartments