article_snippet: Fahmida Aziz (left), cousin of Kadiza, Sahima Begum (centre), sister of Shamima, and Abase Hussen (right), father of Amira, gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee in the House of Commons last week .
article_snippet: However, the families refused to accept any responsibility for the teenagers' actions when the families appeared before a committee of MPs earlier this month.
article_snippet: Instead, the families spent spent more than an hour castigating police over what the families claimed was a failure to inform of the families children's potential radicalisation.
article_snippet: the families were led by the families lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, once the representative of a close associate of the Woolwich killers, who repeatedly demanded an apology.
highlights_snippet: Families of Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana spoke out .
  
highlights_snippet: Families also used message to again lash out at police, school and council .
  
highlights_snippet: Accused authorities of 'failing to act appropriately and pass on information' 