Priti Patel said: ‘Our job is to keep our country safe. We don’t need people who have done harm and left our country to be part of a death cult and to perpetrate that ideology.’
The teenager who fled Britain to join Isis inShamima Begum, 19, remains in the refugee camp where her baby son died within weeks of being born in February this year. He was the youngest of three children the teenager, from east London, has lost in the four years since she left the UK.
Last week she pleaded to be allowed to return home saying her mental health has been drastically affected.Begum was one of three schoolgirls to leave Bethnal Green to join the terror group in 2015. She was tracked down earlier this year and said she wanted to head back to the UK but her British citizenship was revoked.Begum was one of three schoolgirls to leave Britain to join Isis in 2015 In an interview with the Daily Mail she said her only role in the so-called caliphate was to ‘make babies’.But when her request was put to the home secretary, she replied: ‘No way, no way’. Ms Patel said: ‘Our job is to keep our country safe. We don’t need people who have done harm and left our country to be part of a death cult and to perpetrate that ideology.’ She told The Sun: ‘We cannot have people who would do us harm allowed to enter our country – and that includes this woman. ‘Everything I see in terms of security and intelligence, I am simply not willing to allow anybody who has been an active supporter or campaigner for IS in this country.’ Begum last week told the Daily Mail’s Richard Pendlebury: ‘I have no real friends. I have lost all the friends who came with me. Now I do not have anyone.The teenager has had three children die during her time in Syria ‘My mental health situation is not the best. My physical health is okay. I am still young and I do not get sick. That is not my problem. Mentally, though, I am in a really bad way. I need therapy to deal with my grief. It is so hard. I have lost all my children. ‘None of the people I am living with in here know what I have experienced. They are not like my school friends who I could always talk to. They do not understand what I have been through.‘There is no mental health provision. I have heard that in other camps there is psychiatric help, but not here.’ Begum was married off to Muslim convert Yago Riedijk within 10 days of arriving in Syria and she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah on February 16 this year, but he died of pneumonia when he was just one week old. Her family’s lawyer Mohammed Akunjee called for the decision to revoke her citizenship to be overturned.Stripping citizenship is only legal if the individual has a second one, and it was thought Ms Begum may have a claim in Bangladesh because of her family background, but Bangladeshi officials denied this. Mr Akunjee said she had been ‘groomed and radicalised in the UK’ and had no ties to Bangladesh despite the Home Office claiming otherwise. She could face the death penalty if she is sent to Bangladesh, the country’s foreign minister has warned.
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