According to reports published in dailymail, Shamima Begum who as a teenager travelled from the United Kingdom (UK) to Syria to be an Islamic State Jihadi bride wore an ISIS badge on her blazer and attempted to recruit class members to join the terror group.

In revelatory news, former pupils at Bethnal Green Academy have now spoken about their experience of attending school alongside the Jihadi bride who now wants to return to the UK.

It must also be noted that these former classmates of Shamima had also attended school alongside Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana who became infamous for being called the Bethnal Green trio.

Now one former high school student has recalled how she had noticed a change in all three of her Muslim classmates after they started to wear matching pins on the lapels on school blazers.

As per the former pupil whose identity was not revealed, “They’d start talking about religion and try to rope people in,’ the student. They were really pressuring about it, there were like ‘you know, if you don’t go to Islam you’re going to hell, you’re going to die,”.

The former classmate also revealed, Amira had encouraged him to meet with an Imam, an Islamic religious scholar to learn more about ISIS and adds that Shamima and Amira told him about how to live in a perfect society under Islamic rule.

Shemima Begum left the UK for Syria via Turkey along with Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana in February 2015 at the age of 15 and there is also a famous picture of them in Gatwick Airport.

However,  after losing all her three children Begum now wants to return to the UK but in a TV interview, she admitted she did not regret her decision to join ISIS when she was found living in a refugee camp in Syria in February 2019.

She is currently held up at the al-Roj camp in northern Syria with her British citizenship has been stripped by the Government. This has now become an ongoing legal battle as it is now being claimed there is “overwhelming evidence that Islamic State bride Shamima Begum was a victim of trafficking when she left the UK”.

Her legal team is challenging the Home Office’s decision to remove her British citizenship on national security grounds shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.

Her lawyers told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) the Home Office had a legal duty to investigate whether Begum, 21, was a victim of trafficking when her citizenship was revoked.

Samantha Knights QC said ‘the counter-terrorism unit had suspicions of coercion and control’ at the time Begum left the UK. She argued that this ‘gives rise to the need to investigate the issue of trafficking’.

In written submissions, Begum’s legal team said the Home Office failed to consider whether she was ‘a child trafficked to, and remaining in, Syria for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced marriage’.

It must also be noted that Bangladesh also has decided not to recognise her as a citizen as her parents are from that country.

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