By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline
Published: 06:48 GMT, 15 February 2019 | Updated: 06:48 GMT, 15 February 2019
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The only British woman to be jailed for joining Islamic State has been freed from prison.
Tareena Shakil was nicknamed the Towie jihadi when it emerged the fan of reality TV shows such as The Only Way Is Essex fled to Syria with her toddler son in 2014.
The former student, now 29, from Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, posed her son in an IS hat and appeared in pictures with an AK-47 assault rifle and a handgun.
Relatives say she is living in Birmingham, Daily Mirror reports. She returning to the UK to face justice she told jurors she escaped after tricking an IS minder into allowing her on a bus to visit a non-existent husband.
Tareena Shakil (pictured) was the first British woman to be jailed for joining Islamic State and has now been released from prison
She then paid a taxi driver to take her
