The real Shamima Begum

A strong part of me thinks she should be brought to Britain and tried for her alleged crimes. But during the time I spent with her I also went from thinking that she had been groomed to thinking that she was trying to groom me.

Whatever the right answer to the question of her citizenship, we need to stop saying that Shamima was some kind of teenage victim. Everyone is an individual, responsible to some degree for their own actions. She was certainly mature enough to get herself through airports and over the Turkish-Syrian border. This isn’t a dumb kid. …

But what I saw was a woman who transformed herself from an innocent schoolgirl into a jihadi. Now she’s trying to transform herself back into the innocent victim