A British jihadi bride who lost an arm in an airstrike is living in a £500,000 council house and has been fitted with a prosthetic limb, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Samia Hussein was injured when coalition forces launched an attack on a weapons store next to her home in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was under the control of Islamic State.

The 27-year-old, who joined the terror group in 2015, was arrested when she arrived back in Britain in February 2020. The Metropolitan Police last night said she had not been charged with any offence but remained under investigation. It is not known how the artificial arm was funded, but one of Hussein’s relatives said: ‘It’s from the NHS, definitely.’

Hussein, who was born and grew up in London, moved to the Kenyan capital Nairobi in around 2012 to study for her A-levels, living with her stepfather. She subsequently enrolled on a degree course in journalism at the United States International University in Nairobi in 2014, months after ISIS declared its caliphate stretching between Syria and Iraq.  She started watching IS propaganda videos with university friends and, according to her own account, was being groomed online by terror chiefs at the same time.

It is understood Hussein left Kenya and entered Syria via Turkey in early 2015. Speaking to independent film-maker Alan Duncan, who has made a three-part documentary about ISIS, she said she first stayed in a ‘madhafa’, or guesthouse, for ISIS women in the town of Manbij, which was nicknamed ‘Little London’ because of the large numbers of British jihadis living there.

Newly arrived women were forced to stay in a madhafa until they married an ISIS man. Hussein said she wed a fighter called Abu Suleiman, who was also known as Abu Maryam, and the couple lived in Manbij for six months before moving to Raqqa.

Following the airstrike, she spent seven months in hospital where her arm was amputated. She also lost a breast and suffered severe leg injuries. Hussein was captured during the battle of Baghouz, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria by the Russian-backed Syrian Army, in early 2019 and was detained at the al-Hol prison camp, where she was interviewed by Duncan that May.

Speaking about her time with the ISIS terror group, she told him: ‘At that age [20], it was a vulnerable age you’re in, trying to find a purpose in life. I left my career of being a journalist, probably working for Al-Jazeera.

‘The Islamic State, they take your mind. They show the good side of what they are doing, and you see nothing else at all.’ But Hussein joined ISIS at a time when the group had already captured thousands of Yazidi women and taken them as sex slaves. Meanwhile, its British executioner Mohamed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, had beheaded five Western hostages on camera. When asked about ISIS sickening violence, Hussein said: ‘I didn’t do anything. I played no part in it, OK.’

Hussein said she wanted to leave ISIS as soon as she entered Syria, but feared she would be killed and was effectively kept against her will. But when she was asked in the same interview about the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, which left 22, mainly children, dead, she described them as ‘victims of war’.

Hussein flew back to Britain 18 months ago and was arrested at Heathrow Airport under anti-terrorism laws. She was released shortly after her arrest and has since been free to roam the streets of Britain, despite spending almost five years with ISIS. She is living in a new-build council house with members of her family in West London, where similar properties cost between £500,000 and £600,000.

Media tracked her down to the property where she was seen dressed in modern Western clothes, apart from an Islamic headdress. No electronic tag was visible, suggesting her movements were not being monitored by the police. It is understood that Hussein was fitted with the prosthetic arm, which costs around £3,000 and thousands of pounds more in consultants’ fees and physio aftercare, shortly after arriving back in Britain. She received her artificial limb at a time when the NHS was suffering some of the worst backlogs in its history because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Charities supporting amputees said the average waiting time for a new limb was about a month to six weeks before the coronavirus outbreak. But after the pandemic crippled NHS services, waiting times became months long.

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