A remorseless schoolgirl who fled London to join ISIS but wants to return so the NHS can care for her baby should be banned from Britain, critics said today.
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase travelled to Syria in February 2015 but speaking from a refugee camp she said: 'I don't regret coming here - now all I want to do is come home to Britain'.
Security minister Ben Wallace admitted she has the right to return to the UK but they would not help her and said: 'Actions have consequences. I'm not putting at risk British people's lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state'.
Begum is the only known survivor of the three friends from Bethnal Green and her two children died of disease and malnutrition before the age of one as the caliphate fell apart around her.
The schoolgirl claims she lived a 'normal life' in ISIS' capital Raqqa and was 'not fazed' by the brutal execution of its enemies, recounting how she once found an 'an enemy of Islam's' decapitated head in a bin.
But with her third baby now due any day and her jihadi husband Yago Riedijk captured, she has decided to quit and now wants to 'live quietly' back in the UK and ensure her baby survives with the help of the NHS.
In an extraordinary interview with
The Times' Anthony Loyd, she said: 'I don't regret coming here. But I have to think about my baby as well. After my two kids died I'm scared this baby is going to get sick - that's why I really want to get back to Britain because I know it will be taken care of. Healthcare-wise at least'.
But critics say her lack of remorse proves she is a radical and potential danger to Britain, who should be barred from returning or arrested and prosecuted at the very least.
Shamima Begum (pictured in her passport photo, and right before she left aged 15) is now 19 and is alive in Syria - she wants to return to the UK
Fully-veiled women and their children carrying their belongings fleeing from Baghuz in eastern Syria, the final ISIS stronghold about to fall and where Begum claims to have been two weeks ago
Shamima Begum and her friend fled to Syria by flying to Istanbul and getting a bus across Turkey to the Islamic State's capital, Raqqa. She moved to Mayadin with her jihadi husband Yago Riedijk but fled Baghuz when he was captured and is now in al-Hawl
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