The Mail on Sunday has established that Ferdous Jahan, 31, (pictured) is dwelling in the same Syrian refugee camp as Shamima Begum – and, like her, is hoping to be allowed again to Britain
The daughter of a laptop engineer and a science instructor who grew up in a well-heeled West London suburb can right this moment be revealed as one other of Britain’s Islamic State brides.
The Mail on Sunday has established that Ferdous Jahan, 31, is dwelling in the same Syrian refugee camp as Shamima Begum – and, like her, is hoping to be allowed again to Britain.
Interviewed in the Al-Roj camp final month, mother-of-three Jahan, who is believed to have been stripped of her UK citizenship by the Home Office, claimed she was duped by her British convert husband into becoming a member of IS and hopes to be allowed again to the UK.
‘If my kids can have a good training and set up a regular life… then I’ll be very pleased,’ she stated. ‘But if the UK decides not to do that, what can I do?’
Her model of occasions has, nevertheless, been questioned by the mother and father of Terence Le Page, whom she married earlier than they fled to Syria in November 2015. Le Page, who known as himself Abu Khalid, was killed by a sniper in the Iraqi metropolis of Mosul.
‘She was the one which satisfied Terry to go. She was the driving pressure. When they went there, he didn’t prefer it and wished to come back again,’ stated Donna Le Page, 54, at her house in Lewisham, South-East London. ‘She was the instigator. I used to be raving after I heard that. How dare you are taking my son away.’
Despite that, Mrs Le Page hopes the household can return to Britain – if just for the sake of her grandchildren, aged six, 5 and three. ‘They don’t need to be there, they didn’t ask to go there,’ she stated.
Known as Beena to family and friends, Jahan grew up in Twickenham however joined Al-Muhajiroun (ALM), the banned group led by notorious hate cleric Anjem Choudary. ALM organized her Islamic marriage to Le Page, a Muslim convert who took half in protests for the extremist group along with his brother.
Her model of occasions has, nevertheless, been questioned by the mother and father of Terence Le Page, whom she married earlier than they fled to Syria in November 2015. Le Page (pictured), who known as himself Abu Khalid, was killed by a sniper in the Iraqi metropolis of Mosul
On one event, they screamed abuse at British troopers guarding Greenwich Park throughout the 2012 London Olympics.
Jahan was eight months pregnant with their second youngster when the couple travelled to Syria, however she claims Le Page lied to her that it was a romantic journey to Turkey.
‘I didn’t get to have a good honeymoon, so he stated he’ll fulfil his promise,’ she stated final month. ‘But little did I do know what different plans he had in the finish. I barely knew most of the occasions after we have been on the journeys as I used to be sleeping all through the journey.’
Until shortly earlier than his dying, Le Page had lived with Jahan and their two kids in Raqqa, the de facto capital of the IS caliphate.
A 12 months later, she married the father of her third youngster, a Kurdish jihadi who was killed in an air strike in the south-eastern Syrian city of Mayadin. After his dying, she fled to Baghouz, IS’s final stronghold, the place she was detained by Kurdish forces and despatched to a camp.
Her hopes of being repatriated rose when the Red Cross delivered a letter from her household – the first contact with them for six years.
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But her father now says they’ve stopped their authorized efforts to convey her again. ‘We don’t know what choice the Government will take,’ he stated at the £900,000 household house in Bow, East London. ‘We’ve stopped the court docket case. We don’t wish to say a single phrase about her.’
Jahan is of Bangladeshi origin and her citizenship is understood to have been revoked on the same grounds as that of Begum – particularly that Britain was not making her stateless as a result of she will apply to reside in Bangladesh. The Supreme Court dominated in February that Begum, who was a schoolgirl when she travelled to Syria to hitch IS in February 2015, couldn’t return to the UK from Al-Roj to battle her case.
The unmasking of Jahan comes as the Government is reportedly planning to overtake Britain’s 650-year-old treason legal guidelines to make it simpler to prosecute returning jihadists.
The Times reported yesterday that Ministers may redefine the interpretation of an ‘enemy’ to cowl membership or assist for teams that search to hurt the UK.
The marketing campaign group Reprieve stated final week that Britain had stripped citizenship from no less than 19 of the 25 British adults being held in camps in north-east Syria. There are considered 9 British males in Kurdish prisons, as nicely as 16 girls and 34 kids at the Al-Roj and Al-Hol camps.
