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Sam Roberts

ISIS bride Lisa Smith says she 'won't kill anyone' if she returns to Ireland

ISIS bride Lisa Smith says she's "not going to kill anyone" if she returns to Ireland.

The 38-year-old also rejected suggestions that she was a terrorist.

Ms Smith travelled to Syria three years ago and was stuck in the squalid Al-Hawl refugee camp on the Syrian border with her two-year-old daughter.

The former Air Corps steward, who joined ISIS in 2015, is likely to be repatriated - but is not expected to serve a sentence here.

Ms Smith has now claimed that she never picked up a gun since joining ISIS, and denied training young girls to fight for the group.

The Dundalk native rejected suggestions that she was a terrorist, and insisted she is "not going to kill anyone" if she does return to Ireland.

She told BBC Radio 4: "I'm not a terrorist, I'm not out to kill anyone.

Lisa Smith (ITV)

"Do I have any intentions to do anything? No, I'm just interested in trying to bring my daughter up and get her educated.

"I don't even think I'm radicalised, all I know is I came to Islamic State and I failed.

"At the beginning I didn't come to kill anyone, when I was there I didn't kill anyone, and when I go home I'm not going to kill anyone. I just think I'm the same, you know."

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