Judge tells an IS bride she is too dangerous to raise her daughter

A BRITISH jihadi bride who returned to the UK has been told she is too dangerous to raise her toddler daughter.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left Britain with her husband in March 201 and the couple lived in the war-torn cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. Their child was born in Syria in 2016.

She later spent time in a Turkish detention camp before flying home, where she escaped prosecution despite her extremist views. Her husband, who like her is in his early 20s, remains abroad, where he faces criminal charges for his involvement with Islamic State.

Details of the woman’s case were aired last year in a lengthy custody case in the Family Division of the High Court in London.

Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles ruled that she posed a serious threat to her young daughter, who is now living with her paternal non-Muslim grandmother in Britain.

Outlining her concerns about the child, who is now 26 months old, the judge said: ‘In summary my findings were that the child had been exposed to the risk of significant harm by her parents who had travelled to Syria and lived in a warzone.

‘Her father had been radicalised and held extremist Islamist beliefs… Her mother shared the same extremist ideology… Furthermore, there was a risk that the mother would radicalise her daughter.’ The woman is now thought to be living in a council flat in East London. Her husband – a Muslim convert who was born a Christian – is being held in Turkey and is awaiting trial for terror offences.