A YORK woman whose parents were killed in the Manchester Arena bombing has expressed the opinion that Shamima Begum should not be allowed to return to the UK.

Ms Begum fled her east London home aged 15 to travel to Syria to support IS, but now wishes to return home for the sake of her third child, who was born at the weekend. Her two older children have died.

In an interview with the BBC, Ms Begum compared the Manchester Arena bombing to military strikes on Isis strongholds, calling the terror attack "retaliation".

Alex Klis, 21, from York lost her parents Marcin, 42, and mother Angelika, 39, in the blast as they waited to pick her and her young sister up following the concert.

Speaking to ITV's This Morning she said the teenager should remain in Syria.

She said: "She's made her bed hasn't she? I think she should just remain where she is. For starters I don't think she's being honest. I think the only reason she would like to come back is because she couldn't stay where she was.

"She's admitted herself that she had a good life there. She's said herself that the only reason she's wanting to leave there was because it got too dangerous.

"She enjoyed it there. So I think what is the point of coming back if you enjoy it so much there?"

Following the bombing, Alex and her sister said they were overwhelmed by the generosity of people in York keen to support them.

She told The Press, they were still coming to terms with their loss.

“I will really miss the little things about them.

“If I go out shopping and buy a new outfit, I want to be able to ask my mum what she thinks about it.

“They were both really great, loving and caring.

“Everybody who knew them would say they always had a smile on their face.”

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said Ms Begum could expect to be "spoken to" if she comes back to Britain.

The initial police stance when Ms Begum left the UK in 2015 was that she may be treated as a victim of grooming, but the Scotland Yard chief said on Tuesday: "We're a long way down the road since then."

There are currently plans to change the law to make travelling to certain terror hotspots a criminal offence, but this would not apply retrospectively to Ms Begum.

Around 425 suspected jihadi fighters are thought to have returned to the UK from Syria so far.

Ms Dick said: "This case and other cases that are talked about in the same sentences just really underline how awful the circumstances are and have been in Syria and just how dangerous it has been, and would continue to be, for anybody from this country to think of travelling there - dangerous physically and dangerous legally.

"If there is insufficient evidence for a prosecution it is our job to look at the threat they pose if they are returning from Syria and we do that with every single person who comes back from Syria and then manage the risk with colleagues in the (security and intelligence) agencies."