Shamima Begum was just 15 when she - for reasons that only she can ever completely comprehend - stole her elder sister's passport, fled her east London family home and headed to Syria to join ISIS.
Almost nothing was heard from her for four years until she was recently discovered in a refugee camp in north-eastern Syria, voicing a desire to return to what is ostensibly her home country.
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