'She's suffered enough!' Shamima Begum sparks fiery GB News row after ECHR challenges Britain ban

ECHR judges have demanded answers over the case of Ms Begum in relation to state responsibilities for victims of trafficking.

In a document published by the Strasbourg court earlier this month, it states Ms Begum is challenging the decision under Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibition of slavery and forced labour.

Defending Ms Begum, Ms MccGwire told the People's Channel: "She should not have had her citizenship revoked, it's absolutely terrible, she is now a stateless person."

Host Nana Akua interjected, asking her: "So?"

She hit back: "Well, if it had happened to me or one of my children, they would not have revoked the citizenship, because actually you can't revoke somebody's citizenship to make it stateless, you can't, it's illegal.

"She was born in Britain, she was a British citizen, it's utterly wrong that we treat somebody like that. It wouldn't have happened to my child."

Nana pressed the ex-Labour adviser again, asking: "Probably because you wouldn't have allowed them to go off and join ISIS? She ran off?"

Ms MccGwire responded: "Nobody allowed her to do anything. I think it is completely wrong that she was deprived of her citizenship, she did it at 15, she was basically groomed. We know that there was a Canadian person who was encouraging it.

"She was groomed online, she thought that she was going to something really nice and really good fun, she was bored. She was in East London, it was horrible, and she thought this was something nice. She made a terrible, terrible mistake. She was completely regretful about it."

Interjecting Ms MccGwire, Nana stated: "She wasn't regretful at all. When she was interviewed, she wasn't really bothered about potentially sewing things onto suicide vests and other things."

Weighing in on the debate, former Conservative special adviser Charlie Rowley told GB News: "And this is the kind of Government that wants to lower the voting age to 16.

"You can't have it both ways and say at the age of 15 she made a terrible mistake and they can't think for themselves these kids, and yet expect them to then vote in a general election?"

Interjecting Mr Rowley, Mc MccGwire argued: "She was groomed, she was a 15-year-old who was groomed and her two best friends were killed, and she has lost three babies. I think she's suffered enough."

Mr Rowley responded: "Whether or not she was groomed, if you are then indoctrinated, if you are brainwashed in some way which makes you go, you still have the views of supporting ISIS.

"And if you get up and leave the country to deliberately go to Syria, as the case was, to support IS, a fundamentalist terrorist organisation that wants to do US harm in the UK, it is absolutely right that you can have your citizenship stripped from the UK.

"It is right that the Home Secretary at the time did that, and it is absolutely right that this Labour Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is standing by that."

Continuing to disagree with Mr Rowley, the ex-Labour adviser hit back: "I happen to completely disagree with the last two Labour Home Secretaries.

"The reason it's wrong is masses of ISIS men have come back, and the whole reason she had her citizenship stripped was because a Times journalist found her and there was absolute chaos, and it was completely political.

"It was because people were calling for her head. We've had ISIS people coming back, some of them have been jailed, some of them are there. I think it's completely and utterly wrong."

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