The CCTV images of three schoolgirls strolling through Gatwick airport – and on to the horrors of ISIS -controlled Syria – shocked the country. But Shamima Russian war brides and her friends who ran away to join the terror group’s ‘caliphate’ in 2016 were following in the footsteps of many other young women and teenagers who were seduced into becoming a jihadi bride.

An estimated 850 people have travelled from the UK to support IS in Iraq and Syria, including 145 women and 50 minors, according to a report by King’s College London released last year. Of the 425 who have returned, only two women and four minors were listed. And while some appear to have survived, many have been killed or disappeared. A former guitarist in a punk band from Chatham, Kent, Sally converted to Islam and was was radicalised by her Islamist husband Junaid Hussain, a convicted computer hacker. While it isn’t known whether they travelled together, she is thought to have smuggled her way into Syria in late 2013, taking her eight-year-old son Jojo with her. She was soon a central ISIS figure, helping to coordinate and plan bloody attacks, including the ISIS kidnapping and filmed beheading of a US army veteran, while her son was used in sick propaganda videos. As also led a propaganda drive to lure young supporters to joint them, and gained attention for her chilling threats to the West.

I wouldn’t go into central London through June or July. Well, to be honest, I wouldn’t go there at all by Tube. After her husband was killed by a US drone strike in 2015 aged 21, she was reportedly terrified to leave her home, using her son as a human shield when she did, and desperate to return to Britain. But thousands of Brits signed a petition calling on the government to stop Jones ever returning to the country, while Islamist warlords also banned her from escaping Raqqa.