In 2014, at the height of the ISIS reign of terror, Tareena Shakil travelled to Turkey before fleeing, on foot, to Syria. The decision culminated years of turmoil, and months of online grooming, for the "Towie Jihadi" as the newspapers named her, who later became the first British woman to be jailed for joining the terrorist caliphate.
How and why did a girl from Birmingham, aware of the atrocities being committed by ISIS, run away to join them? How did she flee back to the UK alive? And what is she doing now that her subsequent prison sentence has concluded?
Daisy Maskell sits down with Tareena Shakil for a raw, honest account of the reality of joining ISIS, her feelings whilst she was in Raqqa and an insight the work she is doing today to prevent radicalisation.
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