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Syria fears prompt court travel ban of UK teenage girls Syria fears prompt court travel ban of UK teenage girls
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Five teenage girls who had shown an interest in going to Syria have been barred from travelling abroad by a High Court judge. Five teenage girls who had shown an interest in going to Syria have been barred from travelling abroad by a judge at London's High Court.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The girls - two aged 15 and three aged 16 - were made wards of court, removing their passports and banning them from leaving England and Wales.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. It comes after Tower Hamlets local authority, in London, raised concerns.
Last month, three girls from an east London school travelled to Syria, where it is feared they joined Islamic State.
Making the order, Mr Justice Hayden directed that the girls were not identified, and also ordered the removal of the passports of a number of adults involved in their care.
There was evidence to suggest family members in the case had not been full and frank with social services, the judge said.
Passports seized
"It seems to me that that must have been known to the parents and they deliberately did not share it with the authorities who were keen to protect these vulnerable young girls," Mr Justice Hayden added.
He said he made the order following evidence that, in at least one other case, young girls had travelled on passports belonging to family members.
Police believe Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16 - who all left their London homes last month - are now in Syria.
Shamima used the passport of her 17-year-old sister to leave the UK, police have said.
The three girls were friends and pupils at Bethnal Green Academy, based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
A fourth girl from the same school, Sharmeena Begum, 15, from Bethnal Green, left about two months before the three girls.
All four teenagers are thought to be in Raqqa - the Syrian city where IS has its headquarters.