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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robert Dex

Shamima Begum’s ISIS husband reveals the ‘shy’ schoolgirl had ‘weird questions’

Shamima Begum’s ISIS fighter husband has described how the couple met for “10 minutes max” before deciding to get married.

Yago Reidijk, a Dutch convert, was 23 when he wed the 15-year-old who travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, to IS-controlled territory with two other schoolgirls in 2015.

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