"Squirm Like Animals": Released Hostage Recalls Horrific Torture By Jihadi John Sadist

"He caressed my neck with the blade but kept talking: "Feel it? Cold, isn't it? Can you imagine the pain you'll feel when it cuts? Unimaginable pain,"' Javier Espinosa, Spanish journalist who had been captured but is now released, wrote in The Sunday Times.

Describing a mock execution by the IS terrorist, Jihadi John, in order to torture Espinosa, it was "one of 'several episodes of psychological and physical torture, privations and humiliations' prisoners endured."

Javier Espinosa had been held hostage by the Islamic State for over six months. He gives a detailed narrative of his capture, torture and "mock executions" by the British-raised jihadists.

Espinosa was a Middle East correspondent for El Mundo. Along with the photographer, Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, he was set free in March 2014, after a 194-day capture. As he had been told by ISIS that his ex-cellmates would be killed if he spoke to the media, he did not talk much. But as they have all been killed, Espinosa now reveals it all.

The descriptions narrate the terrible executions clearly. The Islamic State executioner 'Jihadi John,' or the Kuwaiti-born UK citizen Mohammed Emwazi, combined psychological and physical torture to break down Espinosa along with 20 other hostages.

Espinosa describes Emwazi as a "bloodthirsty psychopath who enjoyed threatening him and other Western hostages," according to nbcnews.

 "The first hit will sever your veins. The blood mixes with your saliva. The second blow opens your neck. You wouldn't be able to breathe through your nose at this stage, just your throat. You'd make some amusing guttural sounds - I've seen it before, you all squirm like animals, like pigs. The third blow will take off your head. I'd put it on your back," said Emwazi.

He also tortured Espinosa by pulling out his gun, putting it on his head and torturing him by pulling the trigger of his unloaded gun. He then asked the prisoners to describe pictures of dead victims of previous executions, and select either themselves or their colleagues for execution.

Emwazi always "wanted maximum drama" and was one of the "psychotic" extremists who robbed the Spaniard and stowed it with other rooms with millions of dollars, according to dailymail.

Espinosa had also met and related experiences of the humanitarian worker Peter Kassig, who had been killed last November, and described being tortured. "When they realised I was American and that I had been a soldier in Iraq they went crazy," Kassig told the Spanish journalist. "They hung me from the roof and started beating me. They took me up to the balcony and left me hanging in the void from a foot. I thought they were going to execute me right there."

However, Espinosa said that western hostages got better treatment than locals, because they were "valuable bargaining chips and public relations tools - even if for the spectacle of their deaths."

At first, he was kept in the basement of Aleppo, and then was shifted to Raqqa, the ISIS capital. Through the walls, he could hear continuous beatings of Syrian soldiers as well as civilians from the other side of the wall. It always ended with gunshots and silence.

Fifteen of the 23 hostages, though, have been released. Spain, France, Italy and German governments have paid some ransom, but the UK and US governments refuse to pay anything, following the UN guidelines.