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BRITISH ISIS bride Shamima Begum has FINALLY said sorry for her "mistake" in joining the terror group and begged for a "second chance".

The 19-year-old jihadi fled East London at 15 to become part of the brutal caliphate before she was discovered in a Syrian refugee camp four years later and pleaded to come back.

 Shamima Begum has finally expressed remorse for her actions, saying she wants to help other young Brits not to make the same mistakes
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Shamima Begum has finally expressed remorse for her actions, saying she wants to help other young Brits not to make the same mistakesCredit: ITV
 Begum wants to return with her newborn son to the UK - but this may prove tricky since her British citizenship was revoked
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Begum wants to return with her newborn son to the UK - but this may prove tricky since her British citizenship was revokedCredit: Enterprise News and Pictures
ISIS bride Shamima Begum says she would like UK authorities to re-evaluate her case with 'a bit more mercy in their heart'

In her latest interview she showed remorse for the first time since a Times journalist discovered her in the squalid Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria earlier this month.

"I am hoping to be given a second chance," she told the .

"I’d like to be an example of how someone can change.

"I want to help, encourage other young British people to think before they make life-changing decisions like this and not to make the same mistake as me.

"I can’t do that if I am sitting here in a camp. I can’t do that for you."

I’d like to be an example of how someone can change. I want to help, encourage other young British people to think before they make life-changing decisions like this and not to make the same mistake as me

Shamima Begum

The ISIS bride also said how her "fame" led to her being given a new, better makeshift home in the camp - but that angry neighbours "want to burn it down".

She says jealous jihadi wives and Islamist hardliners have scorned her for appearing in multiple TV interviews without covering her face in line with extreme Islamic law.

"Now a lot of women hate me, I’m afraid of a lot of people," she said.

FAMILY APPALLED

Begum's latest words came after her family told how they were appalled at what she has said since being tracked down at the camp earlier this month.

Her father condemned her lack of remorse for what ISIS has done -  saying he is "on the side of the Government" for banning her from re-entering the country.

Ahmed Ali, 60, said: "I know they (the British Government) don’t want to take her back, and in this I don’t have a problem.

"I know she is stuck there but that’s because she has done actions that made her get stuck like this.

"I can’t say whether it is right or wrong, but if the law of the land says that it is correct to cancel her citizenship, then I agree."

MOANS OF 'DISCRIMINATION'

But Shamima - who married jailed Dutch terror nut Yago Riedijk, 23, in Syria - insists she's been "discriminated against" by British authorities.

That is despite admitting she never planned come back to the UK when she travelled to war-torn Syria with two school friends in February 2015.

Again describing herself as "famous", she said: "I feel like I’ve been discriminated against because everyone was saying I was a poster girl for ISIS.

";I’m being made an example of. I’m being punished right now because I’m famous."

She added: "(ISIS) took my passport but I thought to myself 'what am I going to do with it? I don’t really have any use for it.'"

The British government argues it is legal to strip her of UK citizenship because she is eligible for Bangladeshi citizenship - although Bangladesh has said it will not accept her.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid's decision has met with opposition from critics who argue she should be potentially put on trial in Britain.

 Shamima lives in a plush tent at the refugee camp in northern Syria (stock image) after fleeing to the country in 2015
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Shamima lives in a plush tent at the refugee camp in northern Syria (stock image) after fleeing to the country in 2015Credit: Getty - Contributor
 The squalid Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria is home to hundreds of displaced ISIS brides
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The squalid Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria is home to hundreds of displaced ISIS bridesCredit: AFP or licensors
 Shamima was 15 when she fled East London to join the ISIS death cult in Syria but now wants to return home. She is adamant she has done nothing wrong since arriving in the country
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Shamima was 15 when she fled East London to join the ISIS death cult in Syria but now wants to return home. She is adamant she has done nothing wrong since arriving in the countryCredit: PA:Press Association
ISIS bride Shamima Begum says she would like UK authorities to re-evaluate her case with 'a bit more mercy in their heart'


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