In an interview with Sky News, she said the executioner may not be Dhar because the man in the video does not sport pronounced eyebrows like her brother.
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Dhar, believed to be in his 30s, grew up in a Hindu family in Walthamstow, East London, but converted to Islam.
“The various agencies need to work together immediately to ensure that passports are removed, especially as they appear to be a condition of bail”. Just hours after he was granted bail, the Telegraph reports, Dhar caught a bus to Paris with his family and then travelled into Syria, where he joined ISIS. On his arrival in Syria, he wrote on Twitter: “What a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through Europe to the Islamic State”. He posted a picture on social media in which he is holding his baby son in one hand and a rifle in the other.
British security and intelligence authorities have been examining the video and are working to identify the masked man.
Dhar was a fan of Nirvana and Arsenal soccer, British media reports.
The grandfather said the boy, who may be aged as young as four, “doesn’t like it over there”. “I am Muslim first, second and last”. “So that’s something that is a matter of faith”, he said.
“All I can say is I still really miss him, he’s still my brother”. “I heard the voice, yes, but I don’t know, I’m not sure of the voice”. If I was born in Nazi Germany, I’m not going to be a Nazi.
“I cried and I was like, ‘oh my God what is he doing?’ I’m just going to strangle him when I see him, but this is assuming it is him”.
Sky News Home Affairs Correspondent Mark White describes Dhar as a “shameless self-publicist”.
Mrs May said that since April exit checks have been in place on air, sea and rail services while 24 passports were removed from people intending to travel for terrorism-related activity in 2014.
While nobody has provided a firm link between Dhar and the video, the Labour Party spokesman on terrorism said either way the government failed to properly monitor Dhar after he was freed on bail in 2014.
“There are very strong similarities in his voice”.
The British foreign office issued a terse statement saying only: “We are aware of the video and are examining the content”.
However, the security experts said they could be certain it was him. “I’m not convinced it is him”, said his sister Konika Dhar.
‘I’ve seen what a democracy has to offer and quite frankly it is quite oppressive. He said Dhar had never struck him as violent, and had always been friendly.
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In the video, the five men, wearing jumpsuits and kneeling in a desert location, appear to be shot in the back of the head, after making what is claimed to be their confessions.
