Former ISIS-bride Shamima Begum has said she is willing to face trial in Britain for the chance to come back after being stripped of her citizenship.
Now aged 22, Begum insists she did not hate the UK when she fled to Syria to join the terror group and has repeated her plea for a chance to fight accusations against her in court.
She denies any involvement in terror activities and spoken previously of how she wanted to be brought back to the UK to face charges.
In an interview with Sky News, she repeated her denial of accusations that she carried out atrocities as part of IS (so-called Islamic State), saying they are ‘all completely false’.
Begum said her decision to leave the UK as a teenager was not made quickly and that it was something she ‘thought about for a while’.
She said: ‘I didn’t hate Britain, I hated my life really.
‘I felt very constricted, and I felt I couldn’t live the life that I wanted in the UK as a British woman.
‘I feel like the only crime I committed was coming here so I would be willing to go to prison for that. But for the accusations against me, I’m just going to have to fight against them.’
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