"Paul" played a smaller role in the group and did not appear until later in the detention of some of those held by the Islamic State.[30] Aine Lesley Davis, reported to have been one of the British Islamists assigned to guard Western hostages, was arrested in Turkey on 13 November 2015.[37] He was tried in Turkey in 2016 over allegations that he was plotting a terror attack there.[38] On 9 May 2017, he was convicted of terrorism offences by a Turkish court and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.[39]