‘He caressed my neck with the blade but kept talking: “Feel it? Can you imagine the pain?”‘: Jihadi John survivor gives blood-chilling account of mock execution

Mr Espinosa and his colleague Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were kept alongside other hostages for months

A kidnapped journalist who survived Jihadi John has told of the blood-chilling moment the British extremist ran the cold blade of a sword across his neck in a mock execution at an ISIS prison.

Javier Espinosa, a Spaniard captured alongside colleagues while reporting the conflict between President Assad’s regime and militant soldiers in 2013, was freed last year after a deal was brokered between his government and front-line extremists.

He had spent months at the mercy of Mohammed Emwazi, the British hooded executioner now ominously referred to as Jihadi John, and other terrorists while in captivity.