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Widow of slain British aid worker wants to see ‘Jihadi John’ put on trial

FILE - This undated image shows a frame from a video released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, by Islamic State militants that purports to show the militant who beheaded of taxi driver Alan Henning . A British-accented militant who has appeared in beheading videos released by the Islamic State group in Syria over the past few months bears "striking similarities" to a man who grew up in London, a Muslim lobbying group said Thursday Feb. 26, 2015.
FILE - This undated image shows a frame from a video released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, by Islamic State militants that purports to show the militant who beheaded of taxi driver Alan Henning . A British-accented militant who has appeared in beheading videos released by the Islamic State group in Syria over the past few months bears "striking similarities" to a man who grew up in London, a Muslim lobbying group said Thursday Feb. 26, 2015. AP Photo

BELGRADE, Serbia – The widow of a British aid worker killed by Islamic State militants says she would like to see “Jihadi John” captured and put on trial.

Dragana Haines told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview Friday from her home in Croatia, that “I really hope he will be caught, I think it would be a good lesson for all.”

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Haines, whose husband was killed in September, adds that “people of his kind believe that death in combat is an honour, something special.” She said that “I think it would be better if he would end up in court.”

The militant known as Jihadi John appears speaking in several videos of beheadings. He has

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been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a London-raised university graduate in his mid-20s.

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