Teacher injured in Manchester Arena bombing says Shamima Begum should never be ... trends now
A teacher who was seriously injured in the Manchester Arena terror attack has said ISIS bride Shamima Begum should never be allowed to return to the UK.
Jade Clough, who was at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017 which saw the loss of 22 innocent lives, described how the attack had 'changed her life forever' and left her with nightmares.
Ms Clough's comments followed a court ruling yesterday in which Ms Begum lost her bid to reverse the 2019 decision to revoke her UK nationality, meaning she will not be able to return to London from the refugee camp in northern Syria she currently lives in.
It comes as Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said yesterday Ms Begum was not welcome on British streets after intelligence showed she was 'active with the Islamic State'.
Ms Begum left east London at the age of 15 to join the Islamic State in 2015, after which the government stripped her of her UK citizenship on national security grounds.
Shamima Begum was told she would never 'welcome on our streets' by the Defence Secretary (pictured this year on The Shamima Begum Story, a 10-part BBC podcast)
Jade Clough, who was at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017, says Ms Begum should never return to the UK
Ms Clough yesterday said she was happy with the decision and believes that Shamima Begum should stay where she is.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: 'She chose to go to a war zone when she was a teenager but girls her age who chose to go to a concert in Manchester never came back.
'Those innocent pop fans never came home so why should she?'
She added: 'We all make choices and now she has to live with hers.'
Ms Clough, who suffered a serious leg injury in the bombing, said she still has 'mental scars' and struggles to sleep due to nightmares.
She said her life was 'changed forever' by the actions of the suicide bomber, and Ms Begum has 'absolutely no place' in British society.
Meanwhile Roy Larner, nicknamed the 'Lion of London Bridge', was stabbed eight times after he confronted knife-wielding IS murderers in 2017.
He said Ms Begum should 'rot where she is' and that she 'knew exactly what she was getting into'.
Mr Larner, who still suffers from PTSD, believes she 'probably still supports the nutters like the ones who attacked me'.
Begum on Sky News in 2019, when she said of ISIS: 'It was nice at first, like in the videos'
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in a suicide attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22 2017
Roy Larner, nicknamed the 'Lion of London Bridge', said Ms Begum should 'rot where she is'
Ben Wallace said that intelligence showed Shamima Begum was 'active with the Islamic State' and would not be welcome back to the UK
In the run-up to yesterday's court hearing, Ms Begum made numerous media appearances - including a magazine cover, TV interviews and a 10-part BBC podcast series.
