"Many Photos" - Jihadi bride Shamima Begum's family lawyer likens her to WWI soldier

The lawyer representing the family of British jihadi bride Shamima Begum has controversially compared the radicalised youngster to a shell-shocked First World War soldier.

The 19-year-old ran away to join ISIS and marry a jihadi four years ago - but now wants to return to the UK after the terror group's so-called 'caliphate' crumbled into dust.

Many in Britain, including Home Secretary Sajid Javid, have expressed horror at the thought of the extremist teenager, who has backed ISIS beheadings, being given free passage to Britain.

But in his latest contentious comments about the case, her family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, claimed Begum is like soldier returning from the trenches.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, he said: 'It's difficult to take what she said in the current circumstances and try to draw from the lack of emotion or otherwise she has. She's a traumatised person.'

When show presenter Richard Madeley insisted she doesn't look very traumatised, Mr Akunjee replied: 'You might have said the same thing about a First World War soldier in the middle of shell-shock... they are both [in] warzones.'

Madeley branded the lawyer's comments 'foolish', saying his war veteran grandfather found it very difficult to talk about what he went through. 

The on-air spat came after Mr Akunjee claimed Nazi war criminals were given a fairer hearing than Begum, and blamed her local council, the police and even her school for letting her go to Syria in the first place.  

Shamima Begum's family lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee (right), appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain today as the family steps up its campaign to have her returned to the UK

Shamima Begum (left), who appeared on Sky News yesterday pleading for sympathy, is like a shell-shocked First World War soldier, Mr Akunjee (right) claimed

Mr Akunjee's appearance on TV is part of a campaign by Begum's family to have her returned to the UK.

He told the programme: 'The family are aware of how people feel. But it's their daughter and their grandson, who came into existence yesterday.

'I think any parent would think the same thing. They want them home. It wouldn't matter if the whole planet were against her.

'She's a British citizen at the end of the day. There's an innocent child here, the baby. Bringing that child back into safety is a moral duty any state would have.'

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick also appeared on the show this morning and spoke of the Begum case. 

She said that if someone has been linked to a terrorist organisation abroad and they arrive at the British border 'they will be questioned, investigated and possibly prosecuted.'  

Questioned about the Begum and her friend's flight to Syria in the first place, Ms Dick replied:  'The truth of the matter is it's incredibly hard to know what somebody's intending. 

'We try to stop people from travelling when we knew they were travelling with ill-intent.'

Shamima Begum being interviewed on Sky News yesterday just hours after giving birth to her son (thought to be being cradled by another woman, right)

Mr Akunjee said Begum should be assessed by a professional and denied she  was 'making up' that she married a Jihadi and had two children who died.

He told the programme: 'She was married to somebody who was a Dutch national, his parents confirmed that. So she is not making it up.'

Who is family lawyer Tasnime Akunjee?  

Tasnime Akunjee was hired by the families of the Bethnal Green girls after they ran away in 2015. 

That year denounced the authorities for allowing Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15‑year-olds Shamima Begum and Amira Abase to leave Britain.

He castigated the police for failing to inform their parents that a school friend had vanished in similar circumstances a few weeks earlier.

The lawyer has previously said that no Muslim should co-operate with the British police. 

He justified his claim by saying the Government's Prevent counter-terror policy is 'straightforward, paid-for spying on the community'.   

He has also claimed that the security services 'created' Michael Adebolajo — who with Michael Adebowale killed Woolwich Fusilier Lee Rigby — by 'making his life so difficult'. 

Mr Akunjee accepted that people are 'repulsed' by her lack of remorse, but he said one should expect that behaviour of someone who is 'still in trauma'.

He also criticised local authorities in east London for failing to intervene before she and two other schoolgirls left for Syria. 

Local council Tower Hamlets has not yet responded to requests for comment on Shamima's bid to return to the UK. 

His comments come after Begum said people should feel sorry for her and should allow her to return to Britain in a TV interview recorded at the refugee camp yesterday.   

During his campaign for the family Mr Akunjee also told The Times Begum is similar to a soldier.

He told the newspaper: 'The Nazis had the Nuremberg trials. They were given due process. This girl was a victim when she went out there at 15 years old.'

'Our politicians are saying that he should be denied protections and due process that would have been granted to Nazis.'  

In her extraordinary TV interview yesterday, Shamima appeared next to a woman in a niqab who was seemingly holding her child.

She spoke to Sky News from the refugee camp in northern Syria where she had the baby just hours earlier.

Shamima Begum, 19 (pictured before she left the country four years ago) is pleading with the government to allow her back into Britain 

Shamima is pictured walking through Gatwick Airport on February 17 2015 as she left the UK 

Kadiza Sultana (left) and Amira Abase (right) from Bethnal Green in east London, travelled with Shamima Begum to Syria in 2015

The teen said was 'okay' with ISIS beheadings and admitted it would be 'really hard' to rehabilitate her in Britain, hours after giving birth to a baby boy in a refugee camp. 

'It would be really hard because of everything I've been through now,' she said. 

Who were the five Bethnal Green girls who went to join ISIS?  

Sharmeena Begum - Flew to Turkey from London Heathrow in December 2014. No relation to Shamima. 

Unnamed 15-year-old - tried to go to Turkey on the same 2014 flight but was stopped before take-off. 

Shamima Begum - One of the three who flew from London Gatwick to Turkey in February 2015 and then went on to Syria. Has pleaded to be allowed to return to the UK with newborn son. 

Amira Abase - Flew out in 2015 with Shamima who said in yesterday's interview she did not know whether Ms Abase was still alive. 

Kadiza Sultana - Also flew out in 2015. Believed to have been killed in an airstrike in 2016.  

'I'm still kind of in the mentality of having planes over my head and an emergency backpack and starving, all these things. I think it would be a big shock to go back to the UK and start life again.' 

After the Begum family lawyer spoke to GMB, hosts Richard and Kate interviewed a former Jihadi bride who left Britain to marry an ISIS fighter.

Tania Joya now lives in Dallas, Texas, USA, and has been rehabiltated. 

She told the programme Shamima needs help.

She said: 'I was a silly naïve teenager - Llike Shamima. I would have made the same mistakes. 

'It boils down to not being raised without the right values - of freedom of thought and western democracy.

'We need to take her out of that environment, we need to educate her.'

Asked if she can be rehabilitated, Ms Joya said: 'I believe so. Even if she doesn't want to show it. 

'She shows arrogance right now. But I think that's just a wall she's putting up to cope. 

'Deep down inside I think she's a very broken human being - very disturbed.'

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick also appeared on Good Morning Britain today.

She said British nationals who 'come to our ports' having been linked to ISIS in Syria will be questioned, investigated and possibly prosecuted. 

Danny Dyer says Begum SHOULD be allowed to return as he hits out over lack of guidance she was given

Danny Dyer has waded into the Shamima Begum controversy - saying the teenager should be allowed back into the UK.

The EastEnders star said the runaway schoolgirl must have been 'lost within her soul' to go to Syria.

The 41-year-old told Good Morning Britain that Begum, now 19, must have had 'no guidance, clearly, because if you think about it ... How has it got into her head that going to Syria at 15 years of age is the answer, when she lives in this country?'

'What is that about? So who's there to guide her, talk to her?

'Why is she so lost within her soul that she thinks that's the answer, to go to Syria?' he said.

Eastenders Danny Dyer spoke about the case when he appeared on TV today

And Dyer, who plays Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter in the BBC soap, said: 'I don't understand what's gone on there and now she wants to come back.'

Asked whether the UK should allow back Begum Dyer replied: 'Yes, because I feel she needs a chance, maybe to explain what was going on and maybe we can understand a little bit more about how they got to her and how she felt it was the right move to jump on a plane and leave this country at 15 years of age.

'She is still a young girl - who was looking after her? Maybe we can learn from it.'

When the ITV show's stand-in host, Richard Madeley, said Begum would not have gone to Syria without the internet, Dyer replied: 'We've all got the internet, Rich. Are you thinking of going to Syria? Seriously.'

 

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