A former British paratrooper who was imprisoned in Iraq after shooting dead two bodyguards during a gun rampage has been extradited back to the UK.

Daniel Fitzsimons, 41, gunned down ex-Royal Marine Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, both 37, while they were working for ArmorGroup, a subsidiary of G4S.

He was jailed for 20 years in 2011 after the 2009 killing, however he is now serving his time in Britain after being flown home earlier this year, reports the Mirror.

Sources have said that Fitzsimons might be released in 2024 and it is thought he is currently being held at Wandsworth Prison in LondonFitzsimons was the first westerner convicted in Iraq since the 2003 invasion and it is thought that while jailed in Baghdad he was alongside al-Qaeda loyalists.

During his time in prison Fitzsimons, who is originally from Rochdale, allegedly found it difficult to hide his western roots as he is said to have English football tattoos.

It has also been reported that the former paratrooper learned to speak fluent Arabic during his time locked up in Iraq.

Fitzsimons killed Mr McGuigan and Mr Hoare in August 2011, just 36 hours after he arrived in Iraq to start work.

It later emerged during an inquest that he had forged documents to gain a security position and G4S had failed to properly check his criminal record.

The former soldier had been due to appear in court in Bolton after being accused of assaulting an Asian man on a train and also a firearms offence where he used a flare gun to scare off teenagers causing trouble outside his flat.

At the 2011 trial Fitzsimons narrowly escaped the death penalty and was jailed for 20 years in Iraq for double murder and wounding an Iraqi security guard.


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The last picture though...
He resembles the devil incarnate.