Tania Joya, a mother-of-four who grew up in Harrow, Middlesex, (pictured left) read the story of Shamima Begum online from the comfortable apartment in Plano, Texas. Although Miss Joya, 35, now insists she is completely rehabilitated, she was once in Begum’s shoes. She was nicknamed ‘the first lady of ISIS’ after marrying an American Islamic convert (inset left) who became one of the state’s most senior commanders. Today (pictured centre in 2018) she says she has renounced extremism and, in an interview with the Daily Mail, called for Begum to be given a second chance for the sake of her unborn child – and for a law ‘to protect children from their religion’. Locked at home like a ‘house cat’, she was repeatedly raped while her husband courted the Islamic militia. ‘I used to cut myself just to keep him away from me, to stop him having sex with me,’ she said. Today, estranged from her British family, Miss Joya is the wife of IT executive Craig Bruma, 49 (right).
