A British student lured to Syria by ISIS was brainwashed with secret text messages, her parents have revealed.
Aqsa Mahmood's parents Muzaffar and Khalida spoke out after finding their daughter was groomed for terror by fanatic Adeel Ulhaq.
The couple told of their despair after she secretly left Scotland to travel to Syria and their dismay when, after immediately calling the police, official delays lost any chance of intercepting her.
Her mum Khalida says the night her daughter left was the worst of her life, the Sunday Mail reports.
She said: “I never slept. I never died but I felt as though I was dying. My children, my in-laws, my husband, every one of us, cried through the night.
“My baby had gone and nobody was doing anything to stop it.”
The couple told how they discovered Ulhaq, 21, had been secretly grooming their daughter for terror and revealed a dramatic showdown with the radical extrimist and his family after Aqsa ran away from home to marry him.
Muzaffar, 52, and Khalida, 45, spoke out after Ulhaq was jailed for six years for recruiting Aseel Multhana to ISIS and helping him to travel to Syria.
His trial with two other men at the Old Bailey heard he had also radicalised Mahmood while still a teenage schoolgirl and that the pair had planned to marry.
Her parents described a devastating sequence of events which started when Khalida found a suspicious text in May 2013 and ended six months later when their daughter suddenly fled to Aleppo via Turkey.
And, in their first newspaper interview, the couple voiced fears they will never see their daughter again, Mirror reported.
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