Teenage Girl 15 who Fled Britian To Become ISIS Bride

 

Sharmeena Begum, 15, (left) who fled Britain to join Islamic State in December, can be named today as the first of four GCSE pupils at the same school to become jihadi brides. The 15-year-old is believed to be in the IS stronghold of Raqqa with Kadiza Sultana, 16, Shamima Begum, 15, and Amira Abase, 15 (bottom right). Last night her father, Mohammad Udin (top right) said he had no idea that his daughter, who lovedwatching EastEnders and wanted to be a doctor, was being groomed to join the terror group.

 

 

To her adoring father, she was just like any other 15-year-old.

Sharmeena Begum loved shopping at Forever 21, listening to Rihanna and watching EastEnders.

A keen pupil, she would chatter excitedly to her father about her dreams of becoming a doctor. And of course, like most of her schoolmates, she was utterly obsessed with her mobile.

Like most fathers, Mohammad Uddin saw nothing sinister in her constant tapping away on her iPhone.

He assumed she was using Twitter and the instant messaging service WhatsApp simply to chat with her friends.

Only now does he know the horrifying truth – that Sharmeena was being groomed through the internet by shadowy IS extremists.

The 38-year-old father discovered too late what was going on under his nose.

His daughter is now living in the IS stronghold of Raqqa, in Syria, as a jihadi bride – and has told him she will never return. Last night Mr Uddin told of his belief that sinister IS recruiters had taken advantage of Twitter and WhatsApp to corrupt his daughter.

She had told him she was too sick to go to school the day before she fled, last December 6. But she met up with her best friends – Kadiza Sultana, 16, Shamima Begum, 15, and Amira Abase, 15 – at the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London, that evening.

Sharmeena bought an iPhone 5S and some new clothes, apparently using £500 she persuaded her grandmother to hand over a few weeks earlier.

The four girls had been inseparable at Bethnal Green Academy, a school rated outstanding by Ofsted. They were so close that Sharmeena invited the other three to her father’s wedding when he married for a second time in September.

Mr Uddin, a waiter at a central London restaurant, urged police to speak to the other teenagers after his daughter vanished, and even suggested they might have considered running away with her.

‘I said [to officers], “Keep an eye on the three girls, maybe they’ll give you a clue.” Shamima, Kadiza, and Amira were her closest friends,’ he said.

‘I was pretty sure when my daughter went missing that the four girls would have gone together. And when I realised [they hadn’t] I was surprised.

‘I went to Bethnal Green Academy two days later, on the Monday, and I spoke to the deputy headmistress and I asked to speak to the three girls,‘She told me “The police are speaking to them so you can’t”.’

Reports:Daily Mail.