Shamima Begum’s husband insists that their marriage was happy and they even spent time baking – as he paints a picture of domestic bliss in Syria, in contrast to the image she portrayed at her appeal to win back her British citizenship.
Begum, an A-star pupil at Bethnal Green Academy in east London, left Britain in February 2015, with two friends who are thought to have been killed in the conflict.
Yago Riedijk, a Dutch convert, was 23 and had been injured fighting for ISIS when he married the 15-year-old, days after she arrived in Syria.
