'Evil' ISIS bride Shamima Begum has 'no hope for rehabilitation' says Manchester terror victim
The unrepentant 19-year-old is pleading to come home with her baby after fleeing the UK to join the barbarous terror group in Syria in 2015.
But survivors of the devastating bomb attack in Manchester Arena that killed 22 adults and children said they are horrified she may be let back into Britain.
Phil Dick, who helped comfort a badly injured 14-year-old girl for an hour after the bomb went off before reuniting her with her parents, said he was stunned by Begum’s comments.
The 56-year-old, from Bradford, West Yorks, said: "They tried to kill me, my wife, my daughter and my granddaughter.
"They succeeded in killing 22 innocent people who were only there for a concert or picking up their children.
If nothing else this just shows the depravity of IS supporters and the reason why none of them should ever be allowed back into this country
"They succeeded in injuring many more people.
"We weren't meant to survive but it still remained a life changing experience for us all, particularly me as I went back into the foyer so many times looking for my daughter.
"The horrors that I saw I will never shake off.
"I'm stunned by what she's said.
"If nothing else this just shows the depravity of IS supporters and the reason why none of them should ever be allowed back into this country.
"There is no hope for rehabilitation because they have been indoctrinated into an evil ideology."
'I PRAY SHE ISN'T ALLOWED BACK'
Phil, who miraculously cheated death with his wife as they were blown into the air, said he wasn't surprised Begum wanted to return to the UK.
He added: "She's living in a third world country. She's just given birth to a child.
"She wants to come back here because she knows she's going to get the best care in the world via the NHS.
"She knows if she's allowed to come back – and I pray she isn't – they will give her free housing, healthcare and free education for a child fathered by another terrorist.
"Of course she wants to come back – because she knows we're a soft touch."
'WE ARE BEYOND DISGUSTED'
Dancer Eve Senior, now 16, was pictured being helped out of the arena by police in one of the most iconic images of the attack.
She was left using crutches after suffering 18 shrapnel wounds, burns and a severed nerve in her leg.
Her mum, Natalie Senior, told The Sun: "As a family we are beyond disgusted by the comments.
"This girl (Begum) was raised on our streets in our democratic society.
"She turned her back on her country to fight for these disgusting people.
"For her now to say that the Manchester attack was a fair retaliation is absolutely sickening.
"It's exactly the reason she should never be allowed on British soil again."
'SHE'S MADE HER BED'
Alex Kliss, 21, was at the Ariana Grande concert with her sister Patricia, 13, when her parents Angelika and Marcin were killed in the foyer after the bomb went off.
She told This Morning: "I think she's comparing two things that shouldn't ever be compared. She's saying that there are fighters in IS that are getting killed.
"Those people go there knowing what to expect. People at the Manchester Arena went to take kids to a concert and thought they’d get home and tuck their kids into bed and didn’t expect that.
"She's out of order, comparing those two things."
Alex, who became a guardian to her little sister after their parents died, also said Begum needed a "reality check".
She added: "There's already so many questions as to whether this country did enough to stop the suicide bomber in Manchester. I don’t think this country can take another risk."
'SHE'S SUCH A HIGH RISK'
It comes after Begum dismissed the atrocity at the 2017 Ariana Grande concert as “retaliation" for air raids on ISIS in Syria.
Begum, speaking from a Syrian refugee camp, said of the Manchester atrocity: “It’s a two-way thing because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.
“It’s kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought, OK, that is a fair justification.”
Her comments were slammed by Charlotte Campbell, whose daughter Olivia, 15, was among those killed in the suicide bombing.
She said: “I can’t stand the thought of her being allowed back.
“It’s making me ill. She’s such high risk.”
BEGGING FOR FORGIVENESS
Begum, who was 15 when she fled her home in Bethnal Green, East London, to join IS, is pleading to be allowed to return to Britain from a Syrian refugee camp with her newborn baby.
In the latest of a series of interviews, Begum yesterday insisted she was ready to “rehabilitate” if allowed to return.
She said: “I just want forgiveness really, from the UK. Everything I’ve been through, I didn’t expect I would go through that.”
Begum, who wed an IS fighter and had two previous children who died, added: “I don't want to lose this baby as well.”
Asked if she would say sorry to British terror victims, she said: “OK yeah, I am sorry for all the families who’ve lost husbands and sons and brothers.
“I’m sorry for all the men who have lost women and children because of attacks in the UK.
“They weren’t fighting anyone, they weren’t causing any harm. But neither was I.”
It emerged yesterday Begum has named her son Jerah after a 7th century Muslim warlord.
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