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travelling the night Begum left, she said she thought the other girl was on a different plane. As for criticism that the police could have prevented her friends from following her example, Dick said that police did speak with her friends but saw them as witnesses rather than potential victims at the time; "knowing somebody's intentions is 'extremely complicated
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January 2014. Her father remarried in September 2014, and Begum left for Syria in December of that year. Begum's father said that her behaviour had changed; she stopped listening to Western music and began going to her room to pray, but he assumed that she was grieving about her mother's death. At
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defended the police against claims that they should have been able to anticipate Begum's friends following her example. Dick denied that Begum was travelling on the same plane as another teenage recruit who was prevented from travelling. Acknowledging that another 15-year-old girl was prevented from
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Begum became increasingly interested in religious themes after her mother died, although her family had previously described her as non-religious. She is said to have begun praying, and stopped listening to
Western music. Begum did not get along with her new stepmother, and had gone to live with one
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Begum's travel to
Islamic State-occupied Syria, followed by the travel of three of her friends, triggered a discussion of whether UK security officials could have prevented the other girls from following her example. Parents of fellow students said that they were unaware that Begum had travelled to
191:, from where she made her way to Syria. According to reports by her family, she purchased the plane ticket with £500 that she persuaded her grandmother to give her. Begum used her grandmother's passport for her travels, telling her that she needed to borrow the passport for her schoolwork.
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In
February 2019, Begum was described as missing. In 2023, she was contacted online by the BBC after she had escaped from a Syrian prison for women who had been with ISIL. According to the BBC's report, Begum was living in hiding in Syria, raising money for ISIL through social media.
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subsequently approached the three girls to question them about their friend. Since they were minors, they gave them letters to give to their parents to give permission for the questioning. The letters were not passed along, and the police did not follow up.
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She wasn't getting along with her father's new wife and had decided to live with her maternal grandmother in East London. In the absence of news of where she was, parents at the school presumed she had returned to
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he had urged the police and the school to keep a close eye on them, though the police say the formal statement Mr. Uddin gave to them on Feb. 10 — a week before the three girls left — held no such warning.
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The group has previously been mired in controversy after one of its founders was accused of murders and war crimes in
Bangladesh. The newspaper reported that Sharmeena was effectively brainwashed by the
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Sharmeena Begum and another unnamed passenger were on the same plane when the latter was pulled from the runway at Heathrow in December 2014 as she sought to travel to Syria.
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Another concerning development out of this influx is the travelling of women and girls as young as 14 years old into these war zones who are mesmerised by the 'romantic idea of Jihad'.
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Begum was born to
Shahnaz Begum and Mohammad Uddin, who are of Bangladeshi origin. She was raised by her mother until her father joined them in the UK in 2007. Begum's mother died of
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Sultana is now believed to be dead, Sharmeena Begum and Abase are missing, Riedijk has turned himself in to authorities, and
Shamima Begum is asking to return to London.
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Bethnal Green Academy, who had also made their way to Syria via Turkey. They reportedly met in
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Begum's father criticised the police for ignoring his concerns that her friends might follow her example. On 19 February 2019, Metropolitan Police commissioner
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The Mail on Sunday reported today that
Sharmeena was radicalised at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel by women from a group called Islamic Forum of Europe.
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Sharmeena's father, Mohammad Uddin, said he had been surprised that the other girls had not left with his daughter. He told
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93:(ISIL) in December 2014. Two months later, in February 2015, her school friends Amira Abase,
1015:"Met says stopping schoolgirls intent on becoming jihadi brides is 'incredibly complicated'"
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841:"Father Of Isis Schoolgirl Tells LBC His Daughter Was "Brainwashed" And Wants Her Home"
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514:"Shamima Begum tells of fate of friends who joined Isis during half-term"
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fighter who was later killed. Shamima Begum reported last seeing her in
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105:. Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to join ISIL.
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in 2023, and was living in Syria under a different identity.
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23:who left for Syria two months later.
763:"First missing UK schoolgirl named"
358:List of solved missing person cases
1013:Kirsty Bosley (19 February 2019).
973:Katrin Bennhold (18 August 2015).
284:Online contact with the BBC (2023)
210:denied any involvement in Begum's
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471:Mendick, Robert (14 March 2015).
155:Sharmeena Begum was friends with
638:from the original on 1 July 2018
423:Gordon, Bryony (16 March 2015).
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596:. 2 August 2015. Archived from
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108:Begum was tracked down by the
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814:London, Katrin Bennhold in.
353:List of British Bangladeshis
263:Criticism of police response
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