Jihadi John on the Run: ISIL's British Executioner Fears the Chop

Islamic State killer Jihadi John, who was shown committing murders on behalf of the militants in several of their propaganda videos, was reported on Saturday to have fled the Islamic State for another militant group, in fear of meeting the same brutal end as his victims after he fell out of favor with the militant regime.

According to reports, the jihadi is scared that the publicity surrounding him, and the revelations about his true identity, make him a target for other Islamic State killers, who he fears are plotting against him. 

Last year the killer, dubbed Jihadi John' due to his British accent, was shown last year executing several hostages held by ISIL, before he was unmasked in February this year as Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen born in Kuwait in 1988, who came to the UK in 1994, at the age of six. 

A source told the British press that the jihadi is aware that the Islamic State would drop him "like a stone or worse if they feel he is no longer of any use to them."

"So it is possible he will end up suffering the same fate as his victims."

The killer is now said to have joined another, less well-known jihadi group in Syria, which would also enable him to keep a lower profile and avoid detection by British and US Special Forces operating in Iraq and Syria. Last month his destination was reported to be Libya, where he was seeking to avoid capture.

Emwazi is the latest infamous British-born jihadi thought to to have become disillusioned with life in the Islamic State in recent weeks. In early July it was reported Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, who also performed as a rapper in London under the name L. Jinny and was earlier thought to have been the real identity behind 'Jihadi John,' had disguised himself as a refugee in order to go into hiding in the border zone between Turkey and Syria.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary is one of dozens of former jihadis on the run from their former comrades in the Islamic State as well as from the authorities in the countries they grew up in, where they are threatened with a custodial sentence if they return.

In February Imran Khawaja, 27, from west London, was jailed for 12 years for terrorism offences committed in Syria. Khawaja was arrested in Dover in June last year after attempts to fake his own death failed to conceal his entry from the authorities.