By Tim Stickings For Mailonline
Published: 00:54 GMT, 19 February 2019 | Updated: 00:55 GMT, 19 February 2019
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Britain's 650-year-old treason law could be updated to allow jihadists returning from Syria to be prosecuted, the Home Secretary has said.
Sajid Javid told the House of Commons yesterday that a change to the 1351 Treason Act was 'worth considering carefully'.
Mr Javid has vowed to block ISIS bride Shamima Begum from returning to the UK after she pleaded to be allowed back with her newborn son.
The last person convicted of treason in the UK was wartime Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw who was hanged in 1946.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid, pictured in Downing Street last week, told the House of Commons yesterday that a change to the 1351 Treason Act was 'worth considering carefully'
Lord Haw-Haw, real name William Joyce, was a Nazi sympathiser who fled to Germany following the outbreak of the war in 1939.
He became famous forhis radio broadcasts from Berlin back to Britain and the U.S. with the catchphrase: 'Germany calling'.
A member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists before the war, Joyce used the broadcasts to denounce Jews and mock the war effort of Britain and its allies.
William Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was convicted of treason in 1945
The broadcasts were carried out on behalf of senior Nazi Joseph Goebbels and his propaganda ministry.
Joyce would affect a upper-class English accent, giving rise to the Lord Haw-Haw moniker.
Joyce was captured and put on trial for treason at the Old Bailey, where he was found guilty in September 1945.
He was hanged on January 3,