Which begs a larger question, why are we letting in the parents of these five year olds in the first place?
British girls as young as FIVE dream of becoming jihadi brides, claims police chief
- Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner concerned about jihadi brides
- Simon Hayes claimed to know of girls as young as five wishing to flee UK
- He said the ‘problem is current’ and ‘we need as a society to deal with it’
- Experts believe around 250 British jihadis are now living with ISIS in Syria
Simon Hayes, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire, claimed in a televised interview that girls as young as five in Portsmouth had expressed wishes to travel to Syria and become jihadi brides
A police chief has claimed to know of British girls as young as five who want to flee the UK to become jihadi brides in Syria.
Simon Hayes, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire, claimed that young girls in Portsmouth had expressed wishes to travel to Syria and become jihadi brides.
He said in a televised interview that there are issues within the Portsmouth community of youngsters wishing to flee to ISIS strongholds.
During the BBC interview, he said: ‘I have no malicious criticism of the city council whatsoever.
‘But I do know that there are still, in recent months, young girls in schools in Portsmouth saying that they would wish to become jihadi brides.
‘These are young girls at the ages of five and six so these are problems that are current, that have not been dealt with and we need as a society to deal with it.’
It comes amid growing concerns about the number of teenagers – and particularly young girls – who are travelling to Syria to join ISIS.
There are now around 60 British women and girls who have fled the UK to become jihadi brides – an increase of ten over the past year, experts say.
In all, around 250 British jihadis are thought to be now living in Syria – though some groups believe the true figure is much higher.
In most cases, teenagers who travel to the Islamic State are believed to have been groomed online – including three girls from Bethnal Green in East London who ran away to the Islamic State in February.
Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, crossed over the Turkish-Syrian border last February and are believed to be living in an ISIS-held city in Syria where militants operate.
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