Shamima Begum (Archive/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)Shamima Begum is to appeal today against the ban on her return to Britain. The case is being heard by an immigration appeals tribunal but the ultimate decision lies with the Home Secretary. Suella Braverman may stick with the view that Begum is a danger to national security.
I say she should return. It is hard to believe that she poses a real threat to national security. And I say this from a rather different perspective than her lawyers that she was a child when she was trafficked to Syria. She was undeniably manipulated online by Islamic State. Her journey was arranged by a fixer who was also working for Canadian intelligence but that doesn’t quite tell the whole story. She was, it would seem, an idealistic recruit to the Islamist project.
