London: Jihadi John, a masked Islamic State terrorist seen in gruesome videos of beheadings of Western hostages, received anger management therapy in his first year of secondary school in the UK.

Mohammed Emwazi has been identified as the masked militant more commonly known as 'Jihadi John'. Pic/AP

Mohammed Emwazi attended Quintin Kynaston school in Queens Park, north west London, a decade ago. His former teacher said Emwazi needed help controlling his emotions but he was regarded as a “success story” after the therapy, she added.

“We’d find that he’d get very angry and worked up and it would take him a long time to calm himself down, so we did a lot of work as a school to help him with his anger and to control his emotions,” the teacher said.