A federal jury in Virginia convicted El Shafee Elsheikh, one of a group of UK-born ISIS terrorists known as “The Beatles,” of joining a hostage-taking scheme that led to the killing of four Americans.

The jury deliberated for four hours before returning a guilty verdict on all charges Thursday against 33-year-old Elsheikh, who now faces a possible penalty of up to life in prison.

Elsheikh’s trial featured sickening testimony from surviving hostages and family members of the victims: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.

Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were all beheaded in 2014 by an executioner dressed in all black and dubbed “Jihadi John,” in keeping with the Beatles theme. Videos of the grisly murders were posted online by the terror group and quickly spread across the world.

Mueller was forced into slavery and raped multiple times by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before she was killed by blunt force trauma in early 2015. ISIS has said she died in a US drone strike, a claim Washington disputes.

The four Americans were among 26 hostages taken captive between 2012 and 2015, when ISIS controlled large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

Surviving hostages — all European, since their captors executed most American and British prisoners — testified that the Beatles delighted in physical and psychological torture, even adapting the Eagles song “Hotel California” into “Hotel Osama” and making prisoners sing the refrain “You will never leave.”

“It was terrifying for us, a joke for them,” survivor Nicholas Henin testified.

Another former hostage, Federico Motka, testified that in 2013 he and his British cellmate David Haines were put in a room with Foley and another UK captive, John Cantlie, for what was described as a WWE-style “Royal Rumble,” with losers being waterboarded.

Two of the four forced combatants passed out during the hour-long fight, Motka recalled. Haines, like Foley, was later beheaded.

“Praise God! I’m so thankful,” Foley’s mother Diane told the Associated Press after the verdict.

“I’m so proud of the American justice system,” she added. “El Shafee Elsheikh was treated with a great deal of mercy. He had four attorneys. … Hopefully we were able to turn this into justice, not revenge.”

But Diane Foley also faulted the US government for failing to bring her son and others home after they were taken.

“When we really needed to bring the full force of the government to bear to bring them home, that failed,” she said. “They were abandoned.”

Defense lawyers acknowledged that Elsheikh had joined ISIS, but argued that prosecutors failed to prove he was a “Beatle,” noting confusion about whether there were three or four members of the terror clique.

Elsheikh, who prosecutors initially suggested had the nickname “Ringo,” was found guilty even though none of the surviving hostages could identify him or their other captors because the terrorists took pains to hide their faces behind masks and ordered their hostages to not look them in the eye on pain of a beating. (The nickname was bestowed upon them by hostages due to their clear and obvious British accents.)

Prosecutors said there were three men known to be “Beatles” — Elsheikh, Alexanda Kotey and Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi, aka “Jihadi John” was killed in a November 2015 drone strike. Kotey and Elsheikh were captured together by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in 2018 and brought to Virginia in 2020 to face trial.

Kotey pleaded guilty last year in a plea bargain that calls for a life sentence but leaves open the possibility that he could serve out the balance of that penalty in Britain after 15 years in the US.

A fourth alleged member of the bloodthirsty quartet, Aine Davis, is serving a prison sentence in Turkey.

Kotey will be formally sentenced on April 29. Elsheikh will be sentenced Aug. 12. But on Thursday the judge in the two cases, T.S. Ellis III, ordered that Elsheikh appear at Kotey’s hearing as well so that he will hear victim impact testimony that will be presented ahead of Kotey’s sentencing.

With Post wires