Jihadi mum of only surviving Brit child born under ISIS begs for him to be allowed into UK

A British wife who gave birth to a child under ISIS with her UK husband has pleaded with the Government to let her 'innocent' son grow up back home.

David, not his real name, is believed to be the only surviving detained child inside the camps of north east Syria who has both jihadi parents hailing from the UK.

But despite David being too young to have ever taken part in any atrocities committed by the sickening regime, and potentially by his parents, he remains a prisoner by his mother's side after she was captured during the fall of ISIS in 2019.

The pair spend their days behind the fences of al-Roj camp which is home to female former Islamic State brides and their children. A shocking 59 different nationalities are represented behind the barbed wire of the perimeter fence.

His father is held in one of the high-security 'fortress-like' brick prisons elsewhere in the region.

His mother, who was severely wounded during the Coalition airstrikes against Islamic State, told the Daily Express: "I can't talk, I have the shrapnel, I talk really slowly. It's really hard for me here, I want to go back to my family, to England and they can take care of David... I am tired and cry so much when he is asleep, I try to keep a positive face for him and I want him to go back to my family, because there is no one for him here."

Wearing jeans, a red and blue checked shirt and a grey cap, David is a smiling inquisitive child who playfully kicks his legs back and forth as he sits by his mother's side on the sofa. She in turn is dressed in a full-length Islamic niqab dress covering her head and body. Her face is visible but she chooses to hide it with a Covid-style mask.

"I'm eight-and-a-half", David tells us when we ask him for his age.

"He got smacked two days ago, someone hit him in the face", his mum tells me, "He was upset, anybody can do anything here, there is no one to protect us."

The mother only nods when asked if it was a child from a 'more extremist' mother who attacked her son.

"Me and my husband are both British, our child is British...", the mum tells me.

She adds: "We always watch it on TV, whenever there is a programme from the UK, but the Government is not saying anything to us."

Looking at her son, the woman, who is now in her 40s, continues: "All the mistakes I made, he is innocent, I didn't do anything for ISIS, I just went for my husband.

"I shouldn't have come here, but he is innocent, and he needs to go back to the family in the UK."

David listens intently to his mother as she explains her troubles, but as his attention starts to wane like any child, we ask what his favourite TV shows are.

Suddenly enthused, he declares "Tom and Jerry", before he reels off more show names including "Looney Tunes, Teen Titans", and a British-made cartoon called The Amazing World of Gumball.

When questioned where he would like to go if he ever left al-Roj camp, David said: "I would like to go to England, I would like to go to school."

The youngest nodded when we asked if he would be clever in the classroom and said he would like to study "maths and English".

Like most British people, David struggles to take a compliment when we tell him his English is very good, and squirms slightly before politely adding, "thank you".

Mum is obviously happy to see her son sounding excited, but she is quick to point out the mood of the camp for the females held there is far from positive.

"A lot of women are losing it here, mentally, socially, and psychologically, they are not right. If we had an ending, that would be ok, six years, seven years, like a sentence... but we haven't", she adds.

"I am half paralysed, I had two pieces of shrapnel in my neck, but they took one of them out with an operation in January last year."

Pointing to her neck just above her collar bone, the mother indicates the other potentially deadly foreign object remains in her body.

"I asked if they could take it out, because it hurts a lot especially at night, it hurts like this (she indicates a fast-tapping motion on her neck) but the doctor said it would cost $600 so I did not have the money to remove it."

Discussing comments from the Trump administration this year about withdrawing US forces and repatriating foreign ISIS wives and fighters, the mother manages to renew her hope in the conversation.

When asked about Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's comments in January about Britain potentially having to accept the return of ISIS inmates, she adds: "I hope they do, please take us back, for David's sake.

"If I could go back and speak to myself before coming here with my husband, I would have never-ever come to Syria."

The mum's final remark is stark in that the small child at her side potentially would never have been born if decided against travelling to the Islamic Caliphate, but she did come and David was born, and he is still paying for his mother's decision through no fault of his own.

A Home Office spokesperson told the Express: "Our priority remains maintaining the safety and security of the UK and we will robustly defend any decision made in doing so."