Shamima Begum gets legal aid ( Archived) (18)

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has been granted legal aid to fight the decision to remove her citizenship, the Mail can reveal today
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Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has been granted legal aid to fight the decision to remove her citizenship, the Mail can reveal today

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has been granted legal aid to fight the decision to remove her citizenship, the Mail can reveal today.

In a decision blasted as ‘disgusting’ and ‘ridiculous’ by MPs, lawyers have successfully asked for taxpayers’ cash on her behalf, arguing that Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision was unfair on the 19-year-old Islamic State acolyte.

It means taxpayers face a legal bill which could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds to fund the former London schoolgirl’s fight to come back to the UK. She is currently in a refugee camp in Syria.

Last night there was fury at the decision by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), which emerged on the day it was alleged that Begum had stitched suicide bombers into explosive vests. It was also claimed she carried a Kalashnikov rifle and served in a senior role in the IS’s ‘morality police’ as an enforcer of its laws.

The British-born schoolgirl left her family in East London to join IS the age of 15 in February 2015. She lived in the Syrian city of Raqqa and married a Dutch jihadi named Yago Riedijk with whom she had three children, all of whom died as infants.

After being missing for four years, the teenager resurfaced at a refugee camp earlier this year saying she wanted to come home and pleading to be allowed back.

In a dramatic move, Mr Javid ordered that she be stripped of her citizenship ‘in order to protect this country’.

However, the Mail has now learnt that British taxpayers will help pay for her court battle to return, even though Begum has not applied for legal aid herself, nor formally instructed lawyers.

Why should we pay her legal bills she left England for Isis of her own free will, andwas involved with Isis.

Begum is my urologist. He’s alright.

Hope you don't piss on him

man, don't write too long story.

You got attention deficit syndrome

The principle is, if she is entitled to legal aid, she should have it. It isn't a matter of what she deserves, it's a matter of the law. You can't just move the legal goal posts about according to whether you like someone or not.

Politicians move those goal posts here all the time and get away with it: look at any democrats actions in office here. Its clear they do not like the usa constitution so they disregard it amongst themselves. Democrats are haters too. I wish they would recruit hater shawn hannity.

Same here, then add 90 percent of our black population, who are the same way, and if they don't get their way, they burn down their own freakin neighborhoods.. They ignore police, when told to keep their hands where they can be seen, then wonder why they got shot.. Then their families sue, and win.. It's a damn circle jerk around here..