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Sean Morrison

ISIS bride Shamima Begum again begs for UK return to have therapy for grief

ISIS bride Shamima Begum has again begged to be allowed to return to the UK as she said she needs therapy to deal with her grief.

The former east London schoolgirl said her mental health was suffering since she lost three babies in five months after joining the terror group in Syria.

Speaking from a Syrian camp, she suggested that it would be better to be in a British jail so she could access education and psychiatric help.

“Mentally 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,” she told the Daily Mail in an interview published on Thursday.

Shamima Begum fled the UK for Syria when she was 15 years old (PA)

“I have no real friends. I have lost all the friends who came with me. Now I do not have anyone.

She added: “I would like to be at home. There is more safety in a British prison, more education and access to family.”

In April, the 19-year-old said she regrets moving to Syria and having children in the terror group's caliphate while pleading for a "second chance" in her home country.

In her first interview since the death of her son Jarrah, who she was pregnant with when she first attempted to return to England, Begum had said she was "brainwashed" online groomers and militants.

The 19-year-old had her British citizenship stripped amid a fierce national row over her request to come back to the UK.

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She fled to join the Islamic State aged 15 and had lost two children prior to the death of her third.

Her case is now the subject of appeals challenging Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s revocation of her citizenship.

The legal fight over her status is expected to last months or even years.

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