3 min

Introducing… The Shamima Begum Story I'm Not a Monster

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Investigating the story of Shamima Begum. At 15, she ran away from her London home with two school friends to join the terror group ISIS in war torn Syria. Now she wants to come back. It’s a tale that has gripped the world, but there are different ways to tell it.
Josh Baker has been following the story since 2015 when Shamima Begum left for the Islamic State group. For Series 2 of I’m Not a Monster he investigates what really happened.
ARCHIVE:
CNN: Three British Girls Run Away to Syria (2015)
Sky News: Newspaper Review (13/02/2019)
ITV: Good Morning Britain (24/11/2020)
Fox News; The Ingraham Angle (20/02/2019)
ITV: Good Morning Britain (15/09/2021)

Investigating the story of Shamima Begum. At 15, she ran away from her London home with two school friends to join the terror group ISIS in war torn Syria. Now she wants to come back. It’s a tale that has gripped the world, but there are different ways to tell it.
Josh Baker has been following the story since 2015 when Shamima Begum left for the Islamic State group. For Series 2 of I’m Not a Monster he investigates what really happened.
ARCHIVE:
CNN: Three British Girls Run Away to Syria (2015)
Sky News: Newspaper Review (13/02/2019)
ITV: Good Morning Britain (24/11/2020)
Fox News; The Ingraham Angle (20/02/2019)
ITV: Good Morning Britain (15/09/2021)

3 min

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