Runaway jihadi took two-year-old son to ISIS warzone: She returned to Syria despite MI5 being in regular contact

Chris Greenwood And Inderdeep Bains For The Daily Mail

Wedding day: Jamila Henry with her estranged husband, whose identity is being protected

• Jamila Henry, 21, fled to Syria last year with her one-year-old son
• When she returned she was repeatedly interviewed by MI5, relative says
• But last year she managed to fly to Turkey using passport stolen from her ‘party girl’ twin sister Jalila
• She was stopped at the Syrian border and arrested on her return to the UK

The jihadi twin caught trying to enter Syria had already had a seven-month stay there with her toddler son, it emerged yesterday.

Jamila Henry, 21, lived with two-year-old Mustafa in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa until just before Christmas.

She came back to Britain to leave him with family before trying to return to Syria. On Monday Turkish police picked her up in the capital Ankara.

Henry managed to flee the UK for a second time despite being on the radar of MI5, whose agents tried to recruit her.
They interviewed her, gave her a smartphone and repeatedly contacted her. But, under their noses, she was able to steal her glamorous identical twin’s passport and head back to the conflict zone.

The astonishing lapse comes weeks after it emerged that Mohammed Emwazi – the Islamic State butcher called Jihadi John – was known to the security services for five years and they had tried to recruit him too.

Despite being classed as a priority target, Emwazi managed to travel to the Middle East and start his reign of terror in Syria. Michael Adebolajo, one of the killers of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, was also courted by MI5.

Last night, a friend of the Henry family lashed out at ‘bumbling’ MI5 officers, accusing them of trying to cover up their mistakes.

‘They are a joke,’ said the source. ‘They keep calling everyone to find out what happened and telling them what they should and shouldn’t say to people.

They were all over the family for months after Jamila came back but were left whistling in the wind when she disappeared again.’

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