Jihadi John's beard and the way he walked was the key to the missile strike that killed him, a new documentary has revealed. The merciless executioner was identified by a drone flying at night over the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, which beamed back infrared pictures to military chiefs in the US. Within 15 seconds a missile was launched which obliterated the fanatical Londoner as he spoke on the phone. A Channel 4 documentary being broadcast on Monday reveals for the first time details of how Jihadi John, whose real name was Mohammed Emwazi, was hunted down and killed with the help of state-of-the-art tracking and identification technology. Drones had been searching for the ISIS terrorist for a year but any attempt to wipe him out was made difficult because he always surrounded himself with women and children and made sure he was in crowded areas.

A British backpacker has moaned that she was subjected to slave labour because she had to work for at least four hours a day on an Australian farm while trying to secure a two-year visa. Stephanie Banasko (pictured, left) from Merseyside said she spent '88 days a slave' fruit-picking in Queensland. The 25-year-old had hoped to escape life in the UK – which she described as ‘a bit s***’ – but was left ‘mentally drained’ by ‘hard graft’ on her latest jaunt (pictured, bottom inset, the backpacker in Fort Punta Christo, Croatia). She lasted just one month at Farmgate Backpackers (pictured, right) before fleeing to another job – only for bosses there to sack her (inset top, a mango Ms Banasko picked and posted on social media).

Theresa May's Conservatives are expected to get nine per cent of the votes and are now 26 points behind the Brexit Party, a YouGov poll says. Yesterday Tory MPs forced Mrs May to confirm she will announce her resignation with a bloodbath predicted next Thursday because of her failure to deliver Brexit. Today's latest opinion poll also delivers bad news for Labour, with Jeremy Corbyn's party getting 15 per cent and being overtaken by the Liberal Democrats, who are polling at 16 per cent. The Greens are  on 10 per cent followed by Change UK on five per cent and UKIP on three per cent. Mrs May is out campaigning for the European elections in England today with her party tanking and is now weeks from exiting office with up to 20 Tory MPs vying for her job.

Sir Elton John and Taron Egerton performed a passionate duet at the Rocketman premiere after-party on Thursday night following their debut on the star-studded red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival held at Palais des Festivals. The musical legend, 72, made sure he wore a rocket-themed suit for the event as he joined the 29-year-old actor, who is playing him in the film, on stage for the once-in-a-lifetime performance, with the two 'moved to tears' by the audience's standing ovation to the biopic movie.  Elton and Taron, who have developed a close friendship since their filming debut, treated the crowd to the intimate duet, with event-goers sharing videos of the performance where they sang Rocket Man together on social media. 

Commodore Nick Cooke-Priest (left) had been the captain of the £3bn HMS Queen Elizabeth (bottom right) since October. But this week he was sacked for allegedly driving the aircraft carrier's official Ford Galaxy car (similar to inset) on weekends. The Navy has now been accused of firing 'one of its best' over an 'innocent mistake'. But a Top Brass probe found Cooke-Priest, 50, (pictured top right with Prince Charles) guilty of an 'error of judgement'.

‘Meghan and I have talked about her being a mother for over a decade. She’s always wanted to be a mom,’ said actress Janina Gavankar. She added the birth of baby Archie last week was ‘hugely significant’ due to his historic place as a mixed race child in the Royal Family. Ms Gavankar will make the claims in a CBS interview tonight with Gayle King, right.

Shannon Gittings, of Diss, Norfolk, lost control of her grey Fiat 500 while exchanging text messages with Henry Smith just before 5.30pm on October 3 last year. Her car veered into a nearside verge and then swerved across the busy A140 before crashing into a tree on the other side of the road at Tasburgh. Her boyfriend Henry Smith provided police with screenshots of iMessages from his mobile phone, showing their final conversation. They revealed that the couple had been swapping messages in the moments before the crash. Shannon's parents Andrew and Lindsey Gittings left an emotional message on her Facebook page (inset) after her death, saying: 'My darling beautiful baby girl, you made us the most proud parents in the world.'

Channel 4 News has seen invoices, emails and other documents which show the extent of Nigel Farage's financial reliance on millionaire businessman Arron Banks (left) since 2016. Mr Farage (right and inset) quit as UKIP leader after the referendum and now fronts the Brexit Party and represents South East England in the European Parliament on a salary of €100,000 a year plus expenses. For the year after the Brexit vote Mr Banks, through his companies, also organised and funded multiple visits to the United States for Mr Farage.

Simon Hume-Kendall and his wife Helen, left, enjoyed an opulent lifestyle involving expensive yachts, mansions and horses, but now he is facing a major investigation. It soon emerged that Hume-Kendall, 65, is a major kingpin behind the biggest savings scandal to hit this country since the infamous Barlow Clowes affair. Thousands of victims lost their nest-eggs when that investment company collapsed in 1988. Particularly worryingly, the actions of Hume-Kendall and his associates raise difficult questions for the watchdogs: why the Financial Conduct Authority, which regulates the country’s 58,000 financial services firms and financial markets, failed to thwart the scandal.

Kris Hallenga, 33, pictured left celebrating her ten year 'cancer-versary', first found a lump in her left breast while on holiday with her mother and twin sister, (Kris and her twin are pictured inset) but a doctor told her it must be ‘hormonal’. She then moved abroad for work. When she returned six months later, it was supposed to be a temporary visit. But suffering pain in her breast, she saw the doctor again and her mother insisted she was referred to a breast clinic. By then, her tumour was the size of an avocado; scans revealed it had spread to her spine. Many people confronted with a health crisis make a ‘bucket list’ of adventures. Instead, Kris decided if she wanted to do something, she would ‘just go and do it’. Siobhan Lett, top right, was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease nearly 11 years ago and is working more, while Sarah Sweet, 50, bottom right, finds pleasure in the little things in her life.

Darcy -May Elm, right, pictured with her parents Daniel and Danielle was killed when her father attempted a u-turn on the A40 between Carmarthern and St Clears in West Wales in October 2018, her inquest heard. The second driver did not have time to react and ploughed into Mr Elm's car, killing his daughter, causing him life changing injuries and leaving Darcy-May's mother Danielle fighting for her life.

Police have fined a pedestrian £90 for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face when he saw a controversial facial recognition camera on a street in London. Officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a database of wanted criminals. But one man was unimpressed about being filmed and covered his face with his hat and jacket, before being stopped by officers who took his picture anyway. The man was then fined £90 at the scene by officers, who also arrested three other people during the day thanks to the technology. Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has previously said the technology is a 'breach of fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of assembly'. But the police insist the move is necessary to crack down on spiralling violence crime.

A hapless waiter accidentally treated a lucky diner to a £4,500 bottle of red wine at a high-end restaurant, leading the unsuspecting customer to ask for more of what he thought was a £260 beverage. But he couldn't have a second Chateau le Pin Pomerol at Hawksmoor in Manchester (right) - because, unsurprisingly, it was the only one in the place. He'd actually ordered Chateau Pichon Longueville Contesse de Lalande (both wines pictured, left). Hawksmoor co-founder Will Beckett said that the first he heard of the blunder was when his restaurant's social media team shared the news online (inset top). 'If she had done it twice I would’ve been furious, but she’s so great and I’m not annoyed. He enjoyed it so much he wanted another one.'

Rebecca Desmond, 33 (left), claims her ex Rob Atkinson, 33 (right), told Child Maintenance officials he was unemployed and that is why he fell behind with payments for their daughter Freya. But Ms Desmond was fuming when he she spotted him at Tesco Express in Armthorpe, Doncaster wearing a high-viz jacket and getting into his work van (inset). She filmed the confrontation on March 30 and said she would 'see him in court' after seemingly catching him coming home from work.

Philip Stapleton, from Crawley, West Sussex, spotted the Seated Bather painting on the ground and was drawn in by the Art Deco 1930s frame, assuming the piece was a convincing fake. Heb paid £230 for it, but later felt ripped off and took it to Brighton and Hove Auctions to get rid of it. Within a week, auctioneer Rosie May said there were four tell-tale signs that indicate the piece could be a genuine Picasso worth £750,000. Pictured left: The painting. Right: Rosie May and auctioneer Andrew Potter. Inset below: The signature at the bottom of the painting.

German prosecutors want Niels Hoegel, 42, pictured left and right at his trial today, to get life in prison for the killings as he is already behind bars after earlier trials. Hoegel, dubbed the 'angel of death', confessed to giving scores more intensive-care patients drug overdoses because he enjoyed the thrill of trying to reanimate them at the last moment. He stands accused of a revised toll of 97 murders, down from 100 as three cases could not be proved, a prosecutor told the Lower Saxony state court in Oldenburg. Some investigators, however, believe Hoegel may have killed hundreds more by injecting them with deadly drugs while he worked between 2000 and 2005 at clinics in Oldenburg and nearby Delmenhorst. But because the deceased were buried or cremated long ago, autopsies have not been possible in all cases, and in some the post mortem examinations were inconclusive.

Social media influencer Julia Słońska (left inset) made a grovelling apology and quickly took the video down following a backlash from following for breaking the nose off of a the post-war statue in Swiss Valley Park, Warsaw, Poland. The instagrammer, who has 6,000 followers is reported to have that she 'regrets' the terrible prank in which she can be seen laughing as she takes a hammer to the angel sculpture's face. The statue is believed to have received some repair work (inset right).

Yovani Lopez is the husband of Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, 19, who was strangled to death in a Chicago home three weeks ago after going there to pick up baby clothes. She was nine months pregnant with their son, who he has called Yadiel, who was cut out from her womb posthumously and has been in the hospital on a ventilator. He is not expected to survive but the family said they have no plans to turn off his life support. Clarisa Figueroa, 46, her 24-year-old daughter Desiree and her boyfriend 40-year-old Piotr Bobak have all been charged.