Home Secretary calls for caution before re-admitting 19-yr-old who left UK to join ISIS

The return of a British woman identified as Shamima Begum who was15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015 to join ISIS in Syria could be prevented, so says Home Secretary Sajid Javid.

“My message is clear,”Javid told the Times: “If you have supported terrorist organisations abroad I will not hesitate to prevent your return.”

He added that if Shamima Begum, 19, did come home she could be prosecuted.

“We must remember that those who left Britain to join Daesh were full of hate for our country,” Mr Javid said.

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“If you do manage to return you should be ready to be questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted.”

Mr Javid also added that there were a range of measures available to “stop people who pose a serious threat from returning to the UK, including depriving them of their British citizenship or excluding them from the country”.

Now pregnant with a child, Ms Begum says she has no regret joining ISIS but wanted to have her baby in the UK.

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