Lawyer compares ‘shell-shocked’ teenage extremist to WW1 soldiers

ISLAMIC State bride Shamima Begum is comparable to a shell-shocked First World War soldier, a lawyer hired by her family has claimed.

Solicitor Tasnime Akunjee said her lack of emotion in press interviews indicated she was traumatised.

He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: ‘You might have said the same thing about a First World War soldier in the middle of shell shock... they are both [in] warzones.’

Mr Akunjee also said any attempt to deny her ‘due process’ would mean she was being treated worse than Nazi war criminals after the Second World War. He claimed she had been brainwashed, telling The Times: ‘The Nazis had the Nuremberg trials. They were given due process. This girl was a victim when she went out there at 1 years old.’

The lawyer sparked a backlash from Home Secretary Sajid Javid who called the comments ‘outrageous’. He said: ‘If this lawyer has an ounce of dignity then he should consider apologising for the wholly insensitive remarks.’