London: A British-Egyptian man who had been charged with supporting ISIS has been discovered dead in custody.

In order to raise money for the organisation, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, was on trial in Madrid for a number of terrorist offences as well as online fraud. At the El Puerto de Santa Maria prison in Cadiz, he was discovered dead in his cell on Wednesday.

Police identified him as one of Daesh's "most wanted foreign terrorist fighters" after a photo of him in Raqqa in 2014 holding the severed head of a Syrian regime soldier surfaced online. 

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The caption for the image that was shared on social media read: "Chillin' with my homie or what's left of him."

After joining the group, his British citizenship was revoked, and he was once thought to be "Jihadi John," a notorious British Daesh member wanted for the murder of several Western hostages who was later identified as Mohammed Emwazi.

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After departing Syria in 2015, former rapper Abdel Bary was detained in Almeria, Spain, in 2020.

He was charged with establishing a terrorist organisation with two Algerians, Abderrezak Siddiki and Kossaila Cholluah, who police claimed intended to "commit any type of action related to their terrorist militancy."

According to prison sources, Abdel Bary's cause of death has not yet been determined, but there were no obvious signs of violence on his body.

After being informed, his family asked for an additional independent autopsy in addition to the one that Spanish authorities planned to perform.

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For his involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, his father Adel Abdel Bary was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the US in 2015. 224 people were killed and nearly 5,000 were injured in the attacks