Shamima Begum: Isis bride says she is 'in a really bad way' and wants to return home to UK

'Mentally, though, I am in a really bad way,' teenager says. 'I need therapy to deal with my grief. It is so hard. I have lost all my children'

Isis bride Shamima Begum has said she struggling with mental health issues after the death of her three children and wants to be able to stand trial in the UK.

The 19-year-old has been stripped her of her British citizenship and is currently living in a Syrian internment camp.

The teenager who was just 15 when she left the UK with two friends to join the caliphate in the wartorn Middle Eastern country after being groomed online said she was struggling to cope with the loss of her three children, she had with her husband, the Dutch Isis fighter Yago Riedijk.

"My mental health situation is not the best,” she told The Daily Mail. “My physical health is OK. I am still young and I do not get sick. That is not my problem.

"Mentally, though, I am in a really bad way. I need therapy to deal with my grief. It is so hard. I have lost all my children."

Ms Begum added that none of her fellow prisoners "know what I have experienced."

She said: "They are not like my school friends who I could always talk to. They do not understand what I have been through. There is no mental health provision. I have heard that in other camps there is psychiatric help, but not here.”

One of the most high profile of the 900 Britons who left the UK to join the terror group, Ms Begum became the focus of the government’s campaign to remove citizenship from British nationals who left for the caliphate.

She discovered she would not be allowed back in the UK through a journalist.

The furore around her re-entry to the UK was sparked when she said she did not regret joining the group, adding: “When I saw my first severed head it didn't faze me at all.”

However, she has since claimed that she made the comments to protect herself and her unborn son, which she subsequently lost, from attack by her fellow prisoners.

Ms Begum was more recently moved to an internment camp with a focus on rehabilitation, away from the Al Hawl camp where more than 70,000 ISIS family members are reportedly being held.

The teenager now claims to hate Isis.

Pleading to return home, she said: “There is more safety in a British prison, more education and access to family. Here, there are so many uncertainties about what will happen. It is still a warzone”

Among camp officials there is reportedly a genuine belief that Ms Begum’s views have shifted since her time in the caliphate.

Cudi Serbilin, a Kurdish soldier who fought Isis and now watches over detainees, told The Mail: “Her mental illness is very natural because of what she went through. Her children were killed. It was a violation of human rights to recruit a 15-year-old schoolgirl here. We support her as much as we can”.

She added: “I believe she truly regrets she was once one of them. She was broken. She refuses to talk about her past. I want her to talk about her future. And give her some hope.”