The family
of a 'brainwashed' British teenager who loved the X Factor and KFC today
demanded to know why airport officials allowed her to fly on a school
day when she fled to Syria to join ISIS.
Yusra Hussein, 15, left home in September but instead of going to class went to Heathrow where she caught a flight to Turkey.
She
boarded a plane with a 17-year-old British girl she met online and the
two are now believed to be in Syria, and may have married jihadist
fighters.
Speaking today her family called on the young girl to return home - and asked why she was allowed to fly.
Appeal: Sucdi Ali, left, the aunt of Yusra Hussein, 15, right, has asked how she was able to flee Britain for Syria
Sucdi
Ali, Yusra's aunt, said on ITV's This Morning: 'How did she manage to
proceed through an airport on a school day, on a school hour?
'She should be in lessons, rather than just getting on a flight and going to Turkey like she is going on holiday.
'Yusra, if you are watching this, we love you we miss you and your mum and dad needs you back home no matter what.
'Just come home to us. Just remember we love you and miss you.'
Yusra went missing in September and it is believed she fled to Syria to join Isis after she became radicalised online.
Ms Ali said: 'She is a typical teenager who watches the X Factor and loves KFC. But in September she just disappeared.
'The
night before she he told her mum she was going on a school trip and
said to tell dad not to pick her up and not to make her a packed lunch.
'She went to bed early at 8pm and woke up early morning, left on a coach at Bristol from 7am
'She
never said anything about going away. She was afraid of everything,
would not go out in the dark and her father would pick her up from
school, which is a ten minute walk from her home. Nothing to say that
she is unhappy, or that she was angry about Syria or Gaza'.
Worried: Ms Sucdi and family spokesperson Anira Khokar fear the British teenager has been 'brainwashed'
Hunt: Police leave Yusra's home in Bristol, where she fled telling her parents she was off on a school trip
Since
the girl from Stapleton, Bristol, has been missing, she has been in
touch with friends on social media but has failed to contact her family.
She has said she is angry that her family are making public appeals for her to return.
Yusra
was able to meet another Somali schoolgirl Samya Dirie, 17, at Heathrow
and board an aircraft to the Turkish capital Istanbul with her at
midday.
The two teenagers are not thought to have met before and only knew each other from chatting online.
Police
failed to stop a schoolgirl feared to be travelling to Syria from
boarding a flight despite being told she had run away with her passport.
Three
hours after Samya Dirie’s panicked parents alerted officers that she
was missing, she was allowed to fly from Heathrow to Turkey with another
teenage suspected would-be jihadist.
The
two girls are believed to have met online and arranged to travel
together to Syria, apparently intending to join Islamic State militants.
Samya,
17, appeared to be a dedicated A-Level student who loved her life in
Britain and dreamed of becoming a lawyer, her distraught family said
yesterday (Tue).
She
has not contacted her parents since disappearing, but has told a cousin
she is ‘somewhere far away’ and fears what the police will do to her if
she returns to the UK.
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