Raphael Hostey

Raphael Hostey (1992 – May 2016), also known as Abu Qaqa al-Britani, was a British Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant recruiter and fighter from Manchester.

Hostey was a rapper and graphic design student at Liverpool John Moores University when he left his wife and child to join ISIS in 2013. He was part of a group of like-minded extremists in the Manchester area, including Salman Abedi and Ahmed Halane, and he traveled to Syria with other recruits.

During his time in Syria Hostey used social media, including Twitter, Tumblr and Ask.fm, to promote ISIL and recruit for it. He was reportedly part of a five-man team of recruiters He is alleged to have recruited hundreds of people to ISIL, including Jamal Al-Harith He is believed to have been killed in an airstrike in Syria in the last week of April 2016, at the age of 24.