Teacher Samuel Paty, 47, had received threats and was “concerned for his safety” after he angered parents by showing a depiction of Prophet Mohammed displaying his buttocks

Teacher Samuel Paty, 47, received threats before he was murdered

This is the first picture of a teacher who was beheaded after showing a cartoon of a nude Prophet Mohammed to his class in a French school.

The victim was named as Samuel Paty, 47, and his killer was identified as Aboulakh A, an 18-year-old Russian national of Chechen origin.

It has emerged that Mr Paty received threats before his gruesome killing.

The Islamist terrorist was himself gunned down by police after cutting his victim’s head off with a kitchen knife in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday evening.