Begum ‘pretty please’ to UK
JIHADI bride Shamima Begum says she was a “dumb kid” when she joined Islamic State – and once again begged to come home.
The 21-year-old – who fled Britain in 2015 aged 15 – is being held at a prison camp in Syria after she was stripped of her UK citizenship.
In a new interview, she said: “I don’t think I was a terrorist. I think I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.” Asked if she had a message for the British government, Begum said: “Can I come home please, pretty please?” Unrecognisable in a baseball cap, jeans and no hijab, she added: “I wear these clothes, and I don’t wear a hijab, because it makes me happy.”
Begum said she had been following Kim Kardashian’s divorce from Kanye West and watching re-runs of Friends. She said she would like to help “other people be rehabilitated”, adding: “I personally don’t think that I need to be rehabilitated.” Begum, from Bethnal Green, east London, claimed she and pals Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase were brainwashed into going to Syria.
She later gave birth to three children who all died. In February, Begum lost an appeal to return to the UK.
A 6FT 6in armed robber tried to blame the raid on his shorter brother.
Balaclava-wearing Geoffrey Urwin, 37, “terrified” a pregnant worker with a hammer in the robbery at a Coral bookmakers.
But he left a sock – which the weapon had been wrapped in – at the scene and police traced his DNA.
He claimed the culprit must have been his 6ft 3in brother but CCTV analysis from the raid in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, showed the suspect was 6ft 6in.
Urwin was convicted of robbery and jailed for five years and three months at Newcastle Crown Court.
A PRIZE pillock called Bryn Roberts (evidently he’s head of Law and Governance at North Tyneside Council) has thrown a hissy fit over a display of Union flags in council buildings.
Declaring it “not appropriate” and “overly political”, he demanded it be removed before too many fellow snowflakes also melted in a fit of permanently offended vapours.
It’s our national flag, for God’s sake.
Get a bloody grip.