The father of ISIS bride Shamima Begum has apologised for her joining the group and is pleading with the British Government to allow her back into the country.
Ms Begum travelled to Syria when she was aged 15 in February 2015, with two other schoolgirls, so she could join the terror group .
Ms Begum's son Jerah died 18 days old on Thursday after suffering pneumonia in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
Ahmed Ali, 60, said his daughter, now 19, 'did wrong' by joining the group but did so 'without realising it' because she was 'under age'.
Ms Begum travelled to Syria when she was aged 15 in February 2015, with two other schoolgirls, so she could join the terror group . Ms Begum's son Jerah, who she is pictured holding, died after suffering pneumonia in a refugee camp in northern Syria on Thursday
Shamima's father Ahmed Ali, 60, said his daughter, now 19, 'did wrong' by joining the group but did so 'without realising it' because she was 'under age'
Mr Ali called for the government to 'take her back and punish her if she had done any mistake'.
He made the comments before discovering his grandson had died.
Speaking to the BBC in north-eastern Bangladesh, Mr Ali said: 'She has done wrong, I apologise to everyone as her father, to the British people.
'I am sorry for Shamima's doing. I request to the British people, please forgive her.'
He continued: 'She was under age at that time, she couldn't understand that much. I suppose someone influenced her to do that.
'I admit that she might have done wrong without realising it.'
Earlier this month Ms Begum said she wanted to return to the UK with Jerah in an interview with Sky News, which took place at the Al-Hawl refugee camp.
She was moved to Roj this month from the Al-Hawl refugee camp after she was threatened by other IS wives for revealing her face during Press interviews.
Ms Begum, from Bethnal Green in east London, was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls went to join the terror group in February 2015.
Aged 19 and heavily pregnant, she resurfaced in a refugee camp last month and said she wanted to return to Britain as the self-styled caliphate collapsed.
Her family announced the boy's birth on February 17 and said they believed he was 'in good health'.
Ms Begum said two of her other children had also died in Syria.
She told Sky News of her fears that she could lose her third child, saying: 'This is really not a place to raise children, this camp.
A Government spokesman said: 'The death of any child is tragic and deeply distressing for the family.
'The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has consistently advised against travel to Syria since April 2011.'
He had never met Jerah, who shares the same name as a 7th century Islamic warlord.
Riedijk, who is in a Kurdish-run detention center, said last week that he wanted to return to the Netherlands with Ms Begum and their son.
Jerah died after suffering breathing difficulties and pneumonia, a Kurdish Red Crescent paramedic revealed.
He died at 1.30pm local time after he 'turned blue and cold'.
A Government spokesman said: 'The death of any child is tragic and deeply distressing for the family.
'The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has consistently advised against travel to Syria since April 2011.'
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has faced renewed criticism for stripping Ms Begum's citizenship since the death of Jerah.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has faced renewed criticism for stripping Ms Begum's citizenship since the death of Jerah.
Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott blamed the baby's death on Home Secretary Sajid Javid - who has been at the centre of the argument over Ms Begum.
The teenager had asked the government to let her back but Mr Javid stripped her of her citizenship after she showed no remorse.
He said he had no reason to believe his daughter had been radicalised and added: 'I do not stay there more than that. I do not know much about her [lately].'
'The time I stayed with Shamima, I never felt any such behaviour of going to Syria or joining IS.'
He joined Ms Begum's sister Renu, who wrote to the Home Secretary two weeks ago.
She wants to challenge Mr Javid's decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.
She said moving back to Britain was Ms Begum's 'only hope at rehabilitation'.
Conservative MP Phillip Lee said he was 'deeply concerned' by Mr Javid's decision, which was 'driven by a sort of populism'.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'Clearly Shamima Begum holds abhorrent views and to want to join Islamic State is beyond all comprehension, but she was a child, a product of our society.'
The Dutch husband of Ms Begum, Yago Riedijk, 27, joined when he was 15, and is being held in a Kurdish detention centre in north-eastern Syria.
In an interview with the BBC he claimed he rejected IS and tried to leave.
He married Ms Begum just 10 days after meeting her in IS territory and defended his decision to do so.
The Dutch husband of Ms Begum, Yago Riedijk, 27, joined when he was 15, and is being held in a Kurdish detention centre in north-eastern Syria
Riedijk, from Arnhem, said he was initially uninterested by the prospect of marriage with the East London schoolgirl whom he met in a women's centre but decided to marry her because it was 'her choice'.
400 of the 800 British people who went to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS did not lose their UK citizenship and were allowed to return to the UK .
Around 40 the returning jihadis have been prosecuted for terrorism offences.
The majority have been put in the dock using Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which relates to 'preparation of terrorist acts' and can be applied to jihadi brides if they can prove they were 'assisting others' in preparing or carrying out acts of terror.
The news of Jerah's death was announced yesterday.
Initially the family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, tweeted of 'strong but as yet unconfirmed reports' that the three-week-old infant had died, adding: 'He was a British citizen.'
The claim was then disputed by Mustafa Bali, the spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who said the baby was 'alive and healthy' and it was 'fake news'.
He later deleted the post and insiders in Roj camp where she was living confirmed the baby had died after earlier saying he was fine.
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Main photo article The father of ISIS bride Shamima Begum has apologised for her joining the group and is pleading with the British Government to allow her back into the country.
Ms Begum travelled to Syria when she was aged 15 in February 2015, with two other schoolgirls, so she could join the terror group .
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