In March 2015 Quintin Kynaston received unwelcome publicity with the revelation that Mohammed Emwazi, the ISIL killer who was portrayed in the media as "Jihadi John", had been a student at the school, leaving it in 2006. Three former students were involved in ISIL. Mohammed Sakr was killed by a US drone strike in Somalia in 2012 and Choukri Ellekhlifi was killed in Syria in 2013 fighting alongside fellow ISIS members. The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, ordered an investigation into the school.