It's a stonker...
It's a big week for anyone who has been waiting with baited breath for the final episode of Josh Baker’s podcast The Shamima Begum Story,at the age of 15.
And now, in a final episode which didn't disappoint, they have revealed that Shamima Begum’s best friend, Sharmeena Begum , who also travelled to Syria to join ISIS, has been tracked down and interviewed undercover by the BBC. Until this moment, Sharmeena's whereabouts since she left in 2014 has been unknown. She was found having escaped from a detention camp. She's still in Syria, in hiding and using a different identity.
. They were schoolmates in Bethnal Green when in 2014, Sharmeena suddenly went missing. She had run away to join ISIS. Shamima and her friends Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana followed two months later.
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