ISIS bride Shamima Begum 'knew what she was doing' when she travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, a senior MI5 officer told her citizenship appeal.
By Stephen Rigley
Begum is challenging the Home Office's decision to remove her British citizenship, with her lawyers arguing that the department had a legal duty to investigate whether the then-teenager was a victim of trafficking when the decision was made. On the first day of a five-day hearing at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission - where a proportion of the proceedings are expected to be in private - an MI5 officer only known as Witness E gave some evidence in public.
They added: "In some respects yes, I do think she would have known what she was doing and would have had agency in doing so.""We consider whether someone is a threat and it is important to note we recognise that victims can be threats if someone is a victim of trafficking," they added. Her lawyers said that the Home Office deprived Begum of her citizenship "without seeking to investigate and determine, still less consider, whether she was a child victim of trafficking and whether there were failures by public authorities in the UK to prevent her being trafficked".
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