Former Isis bride Shamima Begum's fate has been decided by the British courts and it's not up to meddling judges in Europe to overrule our sovereign legal system.

In 2024, the High Court in London rejected her last bid to overturn the ruling to remove her UK citizenship made by former Home Secretary Sajid Javid five years earlier.

Mr Javid later said if people knew what he knew about Begum they would have "made exactly the same decision, of that I have no doubt".

London-born Begum made the choice to travel to Syria to join Isis as a 15-year-old schoolgirl with two friends in 2015. Both of her travelling companions are believed to have been killed. She later lost three children herself, all of whom died as infants.

Begum spent around four years living under the islamic extremist terrorist cult which carried out unspeakable atrocities across the Middle East before it was finally defeated by a US-led coalition in 2019.

She has been languishing in the al-Roj detention camp for former Isis members in north east Syria ever since. I've met her twice in this camp, once in 2022 when I travelled with the filmmaker Andrew Drury, and again in September this year.

She's not an especially likeable person, she seems immature and sorry for her circumstances, rather than sorry for the reason for which she finds herself in them.

Everyone who discovers I have met Begum, usually has their own opinion. Either she is a naive groomed schoolgirl who should be allowed to return home, or she's a traitor to the values of Britain who deserves to rot in the sands of Syria.

My own view is more of a grey area. It's true she was a child when she travelled to the Middle East. It's true she was groomed online.

Once she was an acolyte of Isis however, she could have also carried out horrendous crimes, and if evidence of those acts ever emerged many of us may make the same decision as Mr Javid.

Fundamentally though, every decision made about Begum has been a British one and it's not up to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to wade in at the 11th hour to challenge the decision made by elected governments in the UK.

Common sense dictates the choice to allow or not allow anyone to enter a country must be made by that country alone, and Begum's fate has been decided, both by her own choices, and by our own courts.