Shamima Begum acknowledges she joined a terror group
The tribunal hearing has centred on whether she was a victim of trafficking for sexual exploitation, or a committed IS volunteer who is a threat to the UK.
Former children's minister Tim Loughton told the BBC it was still not clear why Ms Begum joined IS as a teenager and "what forces brainwashed her", but he said public sympathy for her when she first went missing had increasingly been replaced by anger. According to Ms Begum's account, the preparation for her and two other girls from Bethnal Green to join IS in Raqqa involved their own research as well as explicit instructions from the terror group's members. One of the girls later died and the other is also believed to have been killed in Syria.
Tasnime Akunjee, a lawyer who represented the families of the girls, told the BBC that he searched their rooms after they fled, looking for clues: receipts, phone bills, texts, emails. Ms Begum said they tried to pack light for the journey. "People used to say like, pack nice clothes so you can dress nicely for your husband but I don't know," she said, referring to the fact that they were expected to marry IS fighters.
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