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The mother of Mohammed Emwazi has said she immediately recognised his voice when she heard him on a hostage video released by Islamic State.The mother of Mohammed Emwazi has said she immediately recognised his voice when she heard him on a hostage video released by Islamic State.
The parents of Emwazi told Kuwaiti authorities they were last in contact with their son in 2013 when he called them from Turkey. The parents of Emwazi, 26, told Kuwaiti authorities they were last in contact with their son in 2013 when he called them from Turkey.
They said Emwazi told them he was going to do humanitarian work in Turkey. They said he told them he was going to do humanitarian work in Syria.
Meanwhile the UK's Education Department is to investigate schools with links to pupils who have travelled to Syria. Meanwhile the Department for Education is to investigate schools with links to pupils who have travelled to Syria.
"Our understanding of the challenge of extremism, and the way we monitor the ability of schools to respond to it, has advanced hugely in the past few years," said a department spokesperson. Quintin Kynaston Academy in north-west London, where Emwazi had been a pupil, is to be investigated along with another six schools.
"As part of this work, this Government set-up a dedicated Due Diligence and Counter Extremism division within the DfE and they are working tirelessly to develop our understanding of the problem and to see if and where we can offer help to schools with pupils or former pupils who have since travelled to Syria or other areas of concern. 'Illegal resident'
"The Secretary of State has asked it to review those schools where we have evidence of links with pupils who have travelled to Syria to see if there are any lessons we can learn for the future." Emwazi, from west London, who is also known as "Jihadi John", has been named as the man in several IS videos where hostages have been beheaded.
Emwazi has been unmasked as "Jihadi John", who was pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages.
He first appeared in a video last August, when he apparently killed the US journalist James Foley.He first appeared in a video last August, when he apparently killed the US journalist James Foley.
Emwazi's father said his son was a devout Muslim from a young age and the last contact he had with him was in the middle of 2013 from Turkey where he told the family he was going to join a charity in Syria. Intelligence officials in Kuwait are believed to have questioned his mother and father in the past day.
Kuwaiti officials said he was "an illegal resident" when he lived in Kuwait. Authorities are investigating what Emwazi did, where he went and who he met there during his 2010 visit.
They have confirmed to the BBC that Emwazi has never held Kuwaiti nationality nor held any Kuwaiti documentation like medical or educational certificates. Emwazi's father said his son was a devout Muslim from a young age, and the last contact he had had with him was in the middle of 2013 from Turkey - when he contacted the family to tell them he was going to join a charity in Syria.
Although he was born in Kuwait in August 1988, his family are from the so-called "Bidoon" or "stateless" community of southern Iraqi immigrants, many of whom were deported after Kuwait was liberated from Saddam's forces in 1991. Kuwaiti officials have described Mohammed Emwazi as being "an illegal resident" when he lived in Kuwait.
The Kuwaiti authorities are investigating what he did, where he went and who he met there during his 2010 visit. They confirmed to the BBC that he had never held Kuwaiti nationality nor held any Kuwaiti documentation such as medical or educational certificates.
The announcement of a review of schools came as Home Secretary Theresa May responded to an urgent question on Syria, terrorism and the threat of extremism in the House of Commons. Although Emwazi was born in Kuwait in August 1988, his family are from the so-called "Bidoon" or "stateless" community of southern Iraqi immigrants, many of whom were deported after Kuwait was liberated from Saddam Hussein's forces in 1991.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper asked why the home secretary had not ensured that Mohammed Emwazi - who was known to security services - had been subject to Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, or TPims. Schools review
Mrs May said she could not comment on individual cases, but stressed it was up to the security services to make an application to put somebody on a TPim - when the case was strong enough. Meanwhile the Department for Education (DfE) announced it would carry out a review of schools that had links with pupils who had travelled to Syria.
Earlier, a former head teacher of Emwazi denied he was radicalised at school. A DfE spokesman said it had set up the Due Diligence and Counter Extremism (DDCE) division to improve its understanding of extremism and help schools with pupils or former pupils who have since travelled to Syria or "other areas of concern".
It said the task force would consider "if there are any lessons we can learn for the future".
The announcement came as Home Secretary Theresa May defended her decision to scrap control orders after Labour suggested it had helped terror suspects join fighting overseas.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the relocation powers contained in control orders should not have been ended.
Mrs May said she could not comment on individual cases and that control orders would not have stopped Britons travelling to Syria.
Earlier, a former head teacher of Emwazi denied he had been radicalised at school.
Two other pupils from the same school are also thought to have gone to fight in Syria and Somalia.Two other pupils from the same school are also thought to have gone to fight in Syria and Somalia.
Emwazi had been a pupil at the Quintin Kynaston Academy in north-west London. Jo Shuter, former head teacher at Quintin Kynaston Academy, said there had been no indication that any pupils were becoming radicalised.
Former head Jo Shuter said there had been no indication that any pupils were becoming extremist.
She said: "I am not prepared to say when the radicalisation took place. All I can say is absolutely hand on heart, we had no knowledge of it. If we had we would have done something about it."She said: "I am not prepared to say when the radicalisation took place. All I can say is absolutely hand on heart, we had no knowledge of it. If we had we would have done something about it."