Daesh bride ‘creates major security risk if she returns to UK’

A JIHADI bride’s return to the UK to fight the loss of her British citizenship ‘would create significant national security risks’, the Supreme Court heard.

Shamima Begum (pictured), now 21, was one of three east London schoolgirls who joined Daesh in Syria in 2015.

She married a jihadist and lived under Daesh rule for more than three years before she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February last year.

Then-home secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship on national security grounds. Ms Begum has since been in the Roj camp in Syria, in what her lawyers call ‘dire’ conditions.

Her baby died and she said she had also lost two others.

In July, the Court of Appeal ruled she could have ‘a fair and effective appeal’ if she was allowed to return to the UK. But, at a hearing yesterday, Home Office counsel Sir James Eadie QC said: ‘The exposure of the public to an increased risk of terrorism is not justifiable or appropriate in this case.’ Sir James said Begum ‘married an IS [Daesh] fighter, lived in Raqqa – the capital of the self-declared caliphate – and remained with them for about four years until 2019, when she left from, in effect, the last pocket of IS territory in Baghuz.’ The virtual hearing is expected to end today.