In a brazen interview with The Times, Begum said she wanted to return so the NHS could care for her unborn baby — due soon
A BRIT who joined ISIS in Syria at 15 could be banned from ever coming home.
Pregnant Shamima Begum, 19, wants to return to give birth to her third child.
The jihadi bride has not voiced regrets or shown remorse for joining up with the Islamist butchers.
Permanent exclusion is an option for officials, The Sun understands.
Security minister Ben Wallace warned: “Actions have consequences.”
Shameless Shamima Begum whined that she “could not endure any more” four years after fleeing the UK to join ISIS — but could now be banned from Britain for ever.
She was just 15 when she linked up with the Islamist butchers in Syria.
It was thought as a British citizen she would have to be allowed back.
When I saw my first severed head it didn't faze me at all
Shamima Begum
But it emerged the legal test to exclude the wife of an ISIS fighter from the UK is whether she is eligible to claim citizenship elsewhere. Her parents are from Bangladesh — raising the bar to re-entry here.
The Sun understands that permanent exclusion is one of three options open to officials.
Alternatives are to prosecute her in her absence for being in a designated terror area — or to allow her to return but under heavy monitoring.
In a brazen interview with , Begum said she wanted to return so the NHS could care for her unborn baby — due any day.
With no sign of remorse, she claimed her “normal” life at former ISIS stranglehold Raqqa, was “the one I wanted”.
She even admitted that seeing a severed head of a captured fighter for the first time “didn’t faze me at all”.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid said he would use all available powers to stop Begum returning. He added: “We must remember that those who left Britain to join Daesh (IS) were full of hate for our country.
“My message is clear — if you have supported terrorist organisations abroad I will not hesitate to prevent your return. If you do manage to return you should be ready to be investigated, and potentially prosecuted.”
Security Minister Ben Wallace issued a blunt warning to Begum. He said: “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state.
“People now want to come back to a country they actually hate? Well, actions have consequences”. Tory MPs backed the Government’s tough line.
Mansfield MP Ben Bradley said: “Nobody could ever know her full and true intentions of returning to the UK, and we should not risk lives at home.”
Another Tory MP, Robert Halfon, said: “I’m against her coming back because you have to give a signal.”
SHAMIMA Begum cannot simply board a plane home to Britain, writes Tom Newton Dunn.
ISIS routinely stripped foreign fighters and their families of passports and ID documents before destroying them — in a bid to stop them fleeing.
Ministers have said they do not plan to launch a rescue mission.
And there is no British consulate in Syria to support Begum.
Sources indicated the Government had three main options in dealing with her.
The first is to ban her from Britain permanently — stripping her of UK citizenship.
The second is to prosecute her in her absence for being in a designated terror area, under new powers that came into force this week.
The third is to allow the teenager to return only to then slap a strict TPIM — Terrorism Prevention Investigation Measures order — on her to closely monitor and restrict her movements.
Other legal options include issuing a temporary exclusion order — used just nine times in 2017.
It bars a British citizen from coming back to the UK unless they agree to be investigated, monitored and de-radicalised.
Begum’s family told how her mother wept after speaking to her on the phone.
Her brother-in-law Mohammed Rehman said: “There’s a mixture of elation and sorrow.
“We are happy she’s alive but sad things have come to this.
“She’s put us through a lot of heartache. She’s also gone through a very difficult time herself.
“Until the interview, we didn’t know if she was alive or not. There has been no contact with her in almost two years.
“Shamima’s mum just cried and told her to come home.”
Mr Rehman added: “We want her to come back so she can be re-educated.
“As a family we can’t understand how her head was turned like this and why she thought going to Syria was a good idea.
“I can understand why people in this country are angry and don’t want her back. What she’s done doesn’t portray Islam in a good light.
“She was only 15 when she went to Syria. We’re appealing for compassion and understanding on her behalf.”
Begum is believed to be a British-born citizen, which in the past would have prevented the Government from stripping her of her nationality.
Only dual-nationals or those who had become British citizens — known as “naturalisation” — could be hit with “deprivation orders” removing their UK status.
JIHADI bride Shamima Begum must never set foot in Britain again.
It is sickening and yet predictable that, having joined a terror cult sworn to destroy the West, she now pines for our free healthcare.
Yes, she was only 15 when she left London. But she was old enough to know right from wrong — to know IS were an evil army of terrorist cut-throats.
Even now she has “no regrets” about supporting the Islamist butchers as they raped and massacred women and children and beheaded hostages. She seems proud she was unmoved by the sight of an enemy’s head in a bin.
No remorse. No tears for the family life she abandoned in Bethnal Green. No nostalgic longing for our food, telly or shops. No hint her mind has changed.
Begum simply no longer has “high hopes” IS will survive and wants taxpayers to look after her and her baby.
We won’t.
Security Minister Ben Wallace rightly won’t lift a finger. He says she will face justice if she turns up. Let’s go further: Strip her of her citizenship. Stop her at the border. She is eligible to become Bangladeshi. Let her try her luck there.
Begum would eradicate our way of life if she could. Why should we pay to house or police her?
Even if Begum did return, she would face months of grilling by spooks and anti-terror cops. There would also be intensive monitoring with her threat assessed by MI5 and fed into a matrix of 3,000 “subjects of interest”.
ISIS is known to have given foreign women explosives and weapons training since at least 2015.
Begum fled Bethnal Green, East London, with pals Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase in February 2015. The three flew to Istanbul, Turkey, before crossing the border into Syria.
Sultana was killed in a Russian air strike in Raqqa aged 17 in 2016. Another girl from Bethnal Green, Sharmeena Begum, now 19, also travelled to Syria two months earlier.
It is not known if she has survived recent bomb strikes.
On arrival in Syria, Begum wed a Dutch jihadi, Yago Riedijk. They had two children. Son Jerah, died aged eight months from malnutrition in December, and daughter Sarayah died aged 21 months in January.
Begum was living in Baghuz — under threat from Syrian Democratic Forces. She fled a fortnight ago while her husband surrendered to the SDF.
Begum was taken by bus to a refugee camp in north east Syria.
THE husband of jihadi bride Shamima Begum was linked to an IS terror cell planning Paris-style attacks, it emerged, writes Nick Parker.
Dutch Islamist fighter Yago Riedijk, 27, was in regular contact with seven men feared to have targeted a rock festival in the city of Arnhem.
A Dutch anti-terror source said: “The chances that Riedijk was not in touch with members of the group planning this bloodbath is nil.
“The British girl is being described as a vulnerable victim but she married an extremely dangerous man who waged jihad at home as well as in Syria.”
Police smashed the Arnhem cell last year as the men were about to launch their attack.
An undercover officer had infiltrated their ranks and supplied them with dummy weapons which failed to fire as police swooped.
Investigators learned of their plot to use car bombs, grenades and AK47 assault rifles at a major event, believed to be a rock festival.
Their plan was to walk among innocent revellers in a line killing everyone in their path with rifles and grenades before detonating a huge car bomb.
Dutch police said Riedijk, who surfaced in Syria in 2016, was one of 29 Muslim men from Arnhem identified as having been radicalised.
Of the 29, six travelled to Syria where at least one has died and five have returned from the war zone.
Riedijk, said to have been wounded in fighting then tortured by ISIS chiefs who branded him a spy, was separated from his British bride as they fled ISIS’s last stronghold in Baghuz.
He was understood to have surrendered to a Syrian rebel group but his whereabouts were unknown.
She told The Times: “The caliphate is over. There was so much oppression and corruption that I don’t think they deserved victory.
“I know what everyone at home thinks of me as I have read all that was written about me online.
“But I just want to come home to have my child.”
There remains doubt over whether UK prosecutors could charge her.
But Nazir Afzal, a former CPS chief crown prosecutor, said: “At the very least there is the potential charge of being a member of a banned terrorist organisation in IS.”
He warned that if Begum returned she could face having her baby taken away by social services. He added: “If the authorities felt it fitting, the child should be taken from her.”
A Whitehall source said: “Whilst Begum’s return is fraught with difficulty, it would represent huge intelligence value.”
Amira Abase’s dad, Abasse Hussen, 52, admitted that he expected his daughter to face action if she ever returned. But he stressed: “These girls were young.”
Security sources told The Sun up to four more Brits linked to ISIS fighters had sought sanctuary in refugee camps in recent weeks.
