Ms Dick said officers have a very hard task in trying to establish if someone plans on joining IS (Image: GETTY)
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick sought to clarify reports of the supposed blunder which claimed officers stalled a plane on a runway in December 2014 and removed a 15-year-old girl - while Sharmeena Begum remained unnoticed. But Ms Dick said Ms Begum - who was successful in making her way to Turkey before slipping into ISIS territory in December 2014 - was in fact on a different flight at a different airport. The youngster from Tower Hamlets, who cannot be named for legal reasons, harboured ambitions of becoming a jihadi bride but her plot was thwarted at the last minute after she was reported missing by her parents.
The families of the three Bethnal Green girls who left the UK in 2015 pleaded for their return (Image: GETTY)
Ms Dick said it is 'incredibly hard' to know if someone is planning to go to Syria (Image: GETTY)
Ms Dick told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I think it was actually a different flight and i think the question that’s being asked is whether we were able to pass on sufficient information and understand well enough wheat these three girls were intending.”
In a statement released today, Scotland Yard said Ms Begum, who attended Bethnal Green Academy, slipped through the net after flying from Gatwick to Istanbul on December 6, 2014.
The other schoolgirl, who was not linked to Ms Begum had boarded a flight at Heathrow airport on the same day.
In July 2015 the would-be ISIS bride was arrested and, despite officers finding extremist material on the phone and other devices, released without charge.
Veiled women and children, said to be IS families, have been pouring out of Baghuz in Syria (Image: BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images))
The Times reported the girl possessed material relating to a planned terror attack on the royal family, a dossier on a government building, beheading videos, and speeches by a senior al-Qaeda hate preacher.
Scotland Yard said she was
