News Corp is a network of leading companies in russian runaway bride read online worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. A BRIT who joined ISIS in Syria at 15 could be banned from ever coming home.
Pregnant Shamima Begum, 19, wants to return to give birth to her third child. Map showing the runaway Jihadi bride’s journey in Syria The jihadi bride has not voiced regrets or shown remorse for joining up with the Islamist butchers. Permanent exclusion is an option for officials, The Sun understands. UK to join ISIS — but could now be banned from Britain for ever. She was just 15 when she linked up with the Islamist butchers in Syria.
It was thought as a British citizen she would have to be allowed back. But it emerged the legal test to exclude the wife of an ISIS fighter from the UK is whether she is eligible to claim citizenship elsewhere. Her parents are from Bangladesh — raising the bar to re-entry here. The Sun understands that permanent exclusion is one of three options open to officials. Alternatives are to prosecute her in her absence for being in a designated terror area — or to allow her to return but under heavy monitoring. In a brazen interview with Anthony Loyd of The Times, Begum said she wanted to return so the NHS could care for her unborn baby — due any day.
The oldest of the Bethnal Green trio is believed to have died aged 17 in a Russian air strike at Raqqa in May 2016. Sultana, thought to be the first British female to die in Syria, had been planning to flee. She had married a US national of Somali origin who died in late 2017. The pair were believed to have been killed in air strikes, but Begum claims she heard they are still alive.
Her dad Abase Hussen, 52, was at a flag-burning rally attended by Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo in 2012. She started following hate preacher Anjem Choudary on Twitter weeks before leaving for Syria in 2015. Begum wed extremist Yago Riedijk, 27, and had two kids who died. She says she has no regrets at joining ISIS.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he would use all available powers to stop Begum returning. My message is clear — if you have supported terrorist organisations abroad I will not hesitate to prevent your return. If you do manage to return you should be ready to be investigated, and potentially prosecuted. Security Minister Ben Wallace issued a blunt warning to Begum. I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state. People now want to come back to a country they actually hate?
Tory MPs backed the Government’s tough line. Nobody could ever know her full and true intentions of returning to the UK, and we should not risk lives at home. I’m against her coming back because you have to give a signal. SHAMIMA Begum cannot simply board a plane home to Britain, writes Tom Newton Dunn. ISIS routinely stripped foreign fighters and their families of passports and ID documents before destroying them — in a bid to stop them fleeing.
