Canada: questions abound after grisly tales of 'Isis killer' exposed as a hoax

Shehroze Chaudhry charged with inventing identity as a ruthless killer as saga prompts debate over repatriation and de-radicalization

For months, unbeknown to his classmates and neighbours, a self-professed executioner was living freely in Canada's largest city.

But in 2018, his exploits were made public on a blockbuster podcast produced by the New York Times, in which the man who called himself Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi confessed to a string of grisly crimes as a member of the Islamic State's religious police.