(BBC) Shamima Begum has said she accepts that she joined a terror group when she fled Britain as a schoolgirl for Islamic State (IS) — and said she understands the public anger towards her.
In interviews spanning more than a year, Ms Begum — who was stripped of British citizenship as a national security risk — revealed that she was fed detailed instructions by IS members, but also undertook her own planning for the journey in 2015.
Giving her first full account of her flight to Syria, she told the BBC podcast The Shamima Begum Story that she had been “relieved” to make it out of the UK and said that when she left, she expected never to return.
