ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s final bid to get UK citizenship back REFUSED as she fails to ‘raise arguable point of view’
ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s final bid to get UK citizenship back has been REFUSED.
Three Supreme Court judges have ruled “the grounds of appeal do not raise an arguable point in law”.
Begum was found in a Syrian refugee camp following her travel to the country to join terror group Isis as a 15-year-old in 2015.
Last year, Begum lost her appeal against the decision to revoke her citizenship on national security grounds.
Today justices at the UK’s highest court said Begum could not appeal again after she lost a Court of Appeal bid in February.
In their decision, Lords Reed, Hodge and Lloyd-Jones denied Begum the green light to go to the Supreme Court.
They said her proposed appeal grounds “do not raise an arguable point of law”.
The three justices said that there was no arguable challenge to the Court of Appeal’s decision.
Begum’s lawyers had argued she should have been able to make representations to the Home Secretary before she was stripped of her citizenship.
But the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr dismissed Begum’s Court of Appeal challenge in February.
Baroness Carr said: “It could be argued the decision in Ms Begum’s case was harsh.
“It could also be argued that Ms Begum is the author of her own misfortune.
“But it is not for this court to agree or disagree with either point of view.
“The only task of the court was to assess whether the deprivation decision was unlawful.
“Since it was not, Ms Begum’s appeal is dismissed.”
In March, Court of Appeal judges rejected Ms Begum’s initial bid to take her case to the Supreme Court.