Kadiza Sultana stole jewellery to fund her trip to Syria
The three
‘Jihadi brides’ stole family jewellery to pay for their flights out of the UK,
it was revealed yesterday.
Police have
discovered they paid the £1,000 cost of their flights from Gatwick airport to
Istanbul in cash.
Before they
went missing, the girls are believed to have communicated with 20-year-old Aqsa
Mahmood, a notorious jihadi who left Glasgow last year.
The former
medical student has become the online contact of choice for those wanting to
travel to Syria and marry a militant fighter.
One of the
girls, Shamima Begum, used her Twitter account to try to contact her directly,
asking for her to open a private line of communication.
Friends
suspect the girls were in touch with Mahmood and Islamic State recruiters via
their mobile phones in the weeks before Christmas.
Police
revealed yesterday that two women, aged 20 and 21, have been arrested in North
London over the latter’s disappearance.
The suspects
were held on suspicion of an offence under the Child Abduction Act and will
answer bail next month.
The girls
were pictured going through security at Gatwick Airport last month, dressed in Western
clothes.
They were
later seen on CCTV in Turkey, dressed in burkas and waiting for a bus to take
them to the border with Syria.
They are now
believed to be in Raqqa, Islamic State’s stronghold and scene of some of its
most barbaric atrocities.
Former medical student, Asqa Mahmood, 26, notorious Jihadi young bride recruiter
Shamima Begin, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16 and Amira Abasa, 16
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