Young mother who loved Towie and pop music 'takes her 14-month-old son to Syria after she is radicalised online in just four months

A mother who loves watching The Only Way Is Essex and listening to the Spice Girls is believed to have left Britain for Syria with her 14-month-old son.

Former Girl Guide Tareena Shakil, 25, of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, is said to have travelled to Turkey and crossed into Syria - despite telling her family she was going on holiday to Spain.

Miss Shakil turned to ISIS over a four-month period and has told her family that she is now in the terrorist group’s stronghold of Raqqa with her son Zaheem, according to her father Mohammed. 

Tareena Shakil's Facebook account, set up with a false name. The 25-year-old is believed to have crossed over in Syria from Turkey with her 14-month-old son

One of the posts featured on the Facebook page featuring the flag of terror group ISIS

He told The Sun: ‘There was no reason to suspect. She left wearing jeans and a top she bought in a shop owned by one of the Towie stars. My little grandson shouldn't be going through this.’

Former school prefect Miss Shakil, who is divorced, reportedly set up a Facebook account with a false name and began posting pro-ISIS messages - even describing herself as a 'slave to Allah'.

She set up a Facebook profile under the name of ‘Tameena al Amirah’ in July and posted pro-Islamic messages, before displaying photographs of Muslim fighters and the ISIS black flag.

Then she left home on Monday with her son. Mr Shakil told Sun reporter Michael Hamilton: 'Tareena did drama and was in the Guides. She loved the Spice Girls and Towie.'

Miss Shakil is among a number of young British Muslim women who have travelled to Syria.

Bristol teenager Yusra Hussein, 15, left home in September but instead of going to school went to Heathrow where she caught a flight to Turkey.

Yusra Hussein, 15, who left her home to join ISIS in Syria. Right, police leave Yusra's home in Bristol, where she fled telling her parents she was off on a school trip

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.

Yusra went missing in September and it is believed she fled to Syria to join ISIS after she became radicalised online. 

There was no reason to suspect. She left wearing jeans and a top she bought in a shop owned by one of the Towie stars. My little grandson shouldn't be going through this 

Mohammed Shakil, father of Tareena

Her aunt, Sucdi Ali, said: 'She is a typical teenager who watches the X Factor and loves KFC. But in September she just disappeared.'

In July it was reported that twin schoolgirls who followed their jihadi brother from Manchester to Syria reportedly married ISIS fighters.

Salma and Zahra Halane, 16, from Chorlton ran away to Syria and social media accounts reportedly belonging to the girls show them posting about learning to use guns and seeing grenades and Kalashnikov rifles. The sisters were hard-working students who hoped to train as doctors.

The pair achieved 28 GCSEs between them, but they left their parents’ home in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border. Friends said the twins had appeared to be typical teenagers, pouting for selfies and shopping at Primark – but they are now feared to be training for battle.

Yesterday the family of a Portsmouth teenager killed in Syria said he was 'impressionable and naive'.

Salma (left) and Zahra Halane (right), have reportedly married ISIS fighters. They left their parents’ home in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border

Muhammad Mehdi Hassan went to the war-torn country with a group of friends who called themselves the Britani Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys.

The 19-year-old, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, was killed fighting in Kobani over the weekend after travelling to the country in October last year.

His mother, who did not want to be identified, described her son as a 'loving, gentle and a kind boy' and said the group were 'normal teenagers with good education working in a bank'.

'Something must have really ... their hearts melted when they saw what's happening in Syria,' she told ITV News.

'They are impressionable boys and they are so naive they didn't think in balanced way about implication on life.'

A photo of Mehdi's body emerged on Twitter on Friday and his family previously confirmed to their local mosque that they had received news of his death.

His uncle, Muslim Khan, criticised the Government for making it difficult for young people fighting in Syria to return to the UK.

Out of the group of five friends three have been killed fighting for Islamic State, one is in prison in the UK after being convicted of terrorism offences, and one is believed to be in Syria fighting.

It emerged last Tuesday that another Portsmouth man, Manunur Roshid, had been killed.

The 24-year-old was understood to have joined up with fighters from ISIS. Two of his companions, Ifthekar Jaman, 23, and Muhammad Humidur Rahman, 25, had already died.

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