Shamima Begum
As her father suggests he does not have sympathy for his daughter.
Recruitment narratives of those opposed to the British state will now be strengthened and an invaluable opportunity to improve domestic counter extremism and safeguarding work will be needlessly wasted.
However good it may make us feel to leave Shamima Begum “there to rot”, it is fundamentally a bad move with deep legal and ethical problems.
Home Secretary appears to be "furthering leadership ambitions", SNP says.
Teenager fled her east London home in 2015 to travel to Syria to join IS.
“The officers will deal with whatever they are confronted with.”
"Maybe we can learn from it."
The 19-year-old and her child are believed to be in good health, they said in a statement.
Begum, 19, said she could give birth "any day".
To me, Begum comes across as a a frightened, exhausted young woman, not a dangerous terrorist sympathiser – she surely deserves a chance to try to build a better life than the one she had in Syria