[4] She had chosen to take her toddler son to Syria with her, and was later discovered to have made the one-year-old child pose with an AK-47 and wear Islamic State balaclavas for photographs.
[4] Both during and in the months before she travelled to join ISIS she posted content on social media supporting the Islamic State and justifying their actions, telling people to "take to arms".
Shakil claimed that she soon grew disillusioned with the Islamic State she had chosen to join and wanted to escape, later complaining that there was "no police there for me to ring to help".
[5] In October 2014, Shakil flew from East Midlands Airport to Turkey with her recently-born son, lying to friends by saying that she was going on a family beach holiday, before crossing into ISIS stronghold Syria.
[7] After Shakil arrived in Syria she lived in the ISIS capital Raqqa in a house for single women who were preparing to marry foreign fighters.
[7] Pocas himself is notorious for committing some of ISIS's most publicly shocking acts, with it believed that he had involvement in the kidnapping of British photojournalist John Cantlie and him also being credited by IS for making the execution video for the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh in a cage.
[7] By the time Shakil became engaged in the topic of Syria, IS had carried out a number of public beheadings of Westerners they had kidnapped, which made international news and which there was front-page coverage of in the UK.
[7] Prominent examples such as the cases of US citizens James Foley and Steven Sotloff led to widespread outrage, as well as the beheadings of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.
[9] There have been a number of critics of Shakil's escape story, particularly due to her claims that she had been initially allowed to leave the home for single women by its authoritarian owner to go and buy internet credit.
[6] "Oddly", The Guardian commented, she told the jury that she had only put her child in an ISIS balaclava because the toddler "enjoyed wearing hats".
[6] She accepted that she was aware of the eminent news reports about ISIS before had gone, but said she hadn't heard they were committing atrocities, something her trial judge would later reject as manifestly false.
[7] On the documentary, it was revealed that Shakil, despite claiming to have in fact never married in Syria, had messaged several people during her time there telling them she had moved out with her new husband.
[7] When asked if she was a 'terrorist' in the documentary she denied it, saying that "I don't think I would be sitting here, having gone through everything I'd been through, on this very tough journey, if I was" and that "I came back knowing what I'd have to face: possible prison, having my child removed from me".