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Isis bride Shamima Begum revealed that she wants a foot-long meatball Subway if she is allowed to return to the UK.

The 21-year-old was stripped of her British citizenship on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019, four years after she fled there with two other east London schoolgirls to join the so-called Islamic State group.

Speaking in a documentary about her life in the camp, Begum described wanting to kill herself because of the grief at losing her three children and pleaded with Britain to give her a ‘second chance’.

West Midlands Police officers are accused of telling an alleged rape gang victim, aged 12, that she was “lying” about her abuse, and told her mother she was “prostituting herself”.

“I was 12 or 13 when I went with my mum to the police to report the first rape.

A former prisoner has been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired sword attack.

Sahayb Abu, 27, was found guilty by a jury of preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced on 9 April.

Muhamed Abu, his 32-year-old brother, was acquitted of failing to warn police about the plan.

Sahayb’s preparations included buying a sword, a knife, balaclavas, fingerless gloves, and a combat vest, and paying extra to have the sword sharpened.

IS bride Shamima Begum is “very angry, upset and crying” after being refused permission to return to the UK to fight a decision to strip her of British citizenship.

We should support the Syrian Democratic Forces to bring jihadists to justice.

A dark cloud hangs over the Al Roj camp where Shamima Begum is being held in north-eastern Syria. She is said to be ‘angry and upset’ at the decision of the Supreme Court not to allow her to return to the UK to contest the loss of her citizenship. This bleak picture stands in stark contrast to the feelings of the vast majority of the British public, who will be raising a toast to the Supreme Court and thanking it for putting their interests ahead of an ISIS terrorist.

The treatment of Ms Begum as a victim – of groomers, of racist Tories – is perverse.

So, the Shamima Begum Welcome Committee can stand down. Those commentators and activists who devoted a bizarre amount of energy to depicting Ms Begum as a victim – of Islamo-groomers, of evil Tories, of good ol’ British racism – can put away their confetti and balloons. She isn’t coming home. The Supreme Court has ruled that it was well within the government’s rights to rescind Begum’s citizenship and block her from returning to the UK. The identitarians will have to find a new victim to rally behind, hopefully not one who was complicit in slavery, murderous homophobia and violent religious supremacy this time.

New joint report with terror tsar calls for tighter rules to stop spread of hate online

Extremists who turn young people to terrorism are operating with impunity in the UK because of a “gaping chasm” in the law, the UK’s former counter-terror chief has said.

In a report to be presented to ministers, Sir Mark Rowley said the UK’s laws were so ill-defined that hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary had been able to get away with recruiting hundreds of young people to terrorism without being prosecuted and were still able to do so.

He cited cases of how extremists could use social media to glorify terrorism by Islamic State (IS) murderers and evade prosecution as long as they avoided “encouraging the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism”.