First picture of Jihadi John as an adult before he flew to Syria to become ISIS executioner

Revealed: This is the face of Jihadi John, Mohammed Emwazi, who is ISIS' British executioner and now the world's most wanted man

The first picture of British ISIS executioner Jihadi John's face as an adult has been published - from his time as a model student at the University of Westminster.

The world's most wanted man was named yesterday as Mohammed Emwazi, a British 'known wolf' who grew up in west London and fled to Syria under the nose of MI5 in 2012.

This afternoon this picture - the first of him as an adult - emerged from his time at the University of Westminster, where he studied Information Systems with Business Management from 2006 to 2009. 

Wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap and sporting a goatee beard, the photograph shows eyes which clearly belong to the Islamic State's executioner-in-chief.

But when this photo was taken he was a model student at a London university - his academic record shows he passed all but two of the modules for his degree, gaining a 2:2.

 

As a ten-year-old Mohammed Emwazi, left, set out his dreams and passions in his school year book and said he dreamt of being a football star

 

Pictures taken of Emwazi as a schoolboy shows him smiling at the camera with his church school friends - and there is nothing to link this middle-class schoolboy to the merciless terrorist butcher Jihadi John.

It has emerged that secret services made several attempts to 'turn him' but he steadfastly refused to co-operate, eventually blaming MI5 for becoming a murderous extremist.

Today Boris Johnson's deputy mayor for policing, Stephen Greenhalgh, told the Evening Standard: 'The security services and the police have to do all they can to protect the public. You can't plea bargain with evil'. 

Arriving in Britain when he was six years old, the Kuwaiti-born extremist appeared to embrace British life, playing football in the affluent streets of West London while supporting Manchester United.

Neighbours recalled a polite, quietly spoken boy who was studious at his Church of England school, where he was the only Muslim pupil in his class.

The son of a Kuwaiti minicab driver, young Emwazi arrived in Britain speaking only a few words of English, and appeared more interested in football than in Islam.

He went to mosque with his family, who spoke Arabic to each other, but wore Western clothing and became popular with his British classmates at St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school in Maida Vale, West London.

Former schoolmates were yesterday struggling to believe that the quiet boy they knew had been unmasked as the world's most notorious terrorist.

In a chilling twist, in a school yearbook from when he was 10, Emwazi lists his favourite computer game as shooting game 'Duke Nukem: Time To Kill' and his favourite book as 'How To Kill A Monster' from the popular children's Goosebumps series.

He also lists his favourite band as pop group S Club 7, and when asked what he wants to be when he is 30, writes: 'I will be in a football team and scoring a goal.'

Emwazi also listed his favourite colour as blue, his favourite animal as a monkey, his favourite cartoon as The Simpsons and chips as his favourite food. 

His role as Islamic State's sadistic butcher was a far cry from the football-mad schoolboy who moved to Britain from Kuwait with his parents in 1993.

Given a council flat overlooking the Regents Canal in the exclusive Little Venice area of West London, his father found work as a minicab and delivery van driver while mother stayed at home with Mohammed and his two younger sisters now 25 and 23.

Three more children followed, all born after the family settled in Britain, and the family were said to be close, with both parents arriving at the school gate each day to collect their children.

His family are not being named to protect their privacy.

Former classmates at St Mary Magdalene said Emwazi had got into occasional fights after school assemblies, but said he was usually reserved and dedicated to his religion.

 

Classmates: Emwazi (front row, second from left) pictured with classmates at the St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school in west London. Friends described him as football-mad and popular

 

Terror: Emwazi is believed to have been one of more than 700 foreign fighters in The Migrants Brigade who arrived in the Middle East three years ago to fight for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate