article_snippet: Few could have predicted what 15-year-old Amira Abase would do next.
article_snippet: Two weeks ago, in the middle of half-term, Amira Abase abruptly walked out of Amira Abase family’s council home in East London, wearing black jeans and trainers.
article_snippet: Few, however, have been radicalised so swiftly as Amira Abase.
article_snippet: ‘Amira Abase was perfectly normal.
article_snippet: Amira Abase was pretty, popular, and a bit of a rebel who saw the funny side of life.
article_snippet: Amira Abase had a BlackBerry phone at 11 or 12, and later an iPhone and computer.
article_snippet: Amira Abase was on them all the time.
article_snippet: Amira Abase passed three GCSEs in maths and science early, at age 14.
article_snippet: Amira Abase talents did not stop in class.
article_snippet: Amira Abase came to parties if there was no alcohol, and we’d go shopping for clothes.
article_snippet: Amira Abase was one of we.
article_snippet: Amira Abase parents would not have approved of a boyfriend.
article_snippet: While they were going clubbing, meeting boyfriends, and taking foreign holidays together, these Western ways were forbidden to Amira Abase because of Amira Abase background.
article_snippet: By the time of Amira Abase 15th birthday in May last year, Amira Abase had become a ‘different person’.
article_snippet: Amira Abase cut Amira Abase off from Amira Abase ‘
article_snippet: Amira Abase and Amira Abase
article_snippet: Amira Abase was getting into religion and Middle Eastern affairs seriously.