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I'm Sarooty. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

Those who join ISIS for religious reasons or any other reasons should prepare to lose their lives or

their humanity.

Those are the words of Nadia Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Yazidi woman who was captured

by so-called Islamic State held captive for three months and sold into sex slavery.

Yes, that is right everybody. It's going to be a very, very rough one this week as we are heading

to the Middle East following the path of British citizens who have left their homes here in the UK

to go into the Syrian war zone and join a death cult. So many places that I was reading when I was

doing research for this episode, they're like who fled the UK? Who fled the UK for Syria?

Right, right, right. And I was like excuse you fled the UK. What a weird phrase, what a weird

terminology to use to explain what these people did. Like I hated it and because I had read it so

many places I would almost automatically start writing that like right fled and I was like catch

myself and change it to who left the UK to go to Syria. Yeah, then not refugees, they're not

political prisoners. No, as much as they would like to have you believe that. So yes, they didn't

flee, they left the UK to go to Syria. Now welcome back to Nadia and her horrific story and the

nightmares that she faced in Iraq in next week's episode because yes, this is just such an enormous

case that we had to make it a two-parter. And our story today begins not in Iraq or Syria,

but some 2,800 miles away in Bethnal Green, East London. Good pop quiz in Bethnal Green, the

star Bethnal Green, good pop quiz, used to go there when I lived in Poplar. Great fried chicken in

Bethnal Green, I've had in my time. Yes, very true. Great place. Before I moved to London,

I always thought Bethnal Green was the coolest place in the world. It was like my very early 20s

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