The former health care worker escaped when the Islamic State 'were at their peak' and was sentenced to six years behind bars for joining the group and encouraging acts of terrorism, Birmingham Live reports. Speaking in an ITV documentary aired on November 14, she said nobody understood what she was living through and she "did what I had to do to survive."During the footage - in which she became the first British citizen to return to the UK from ISIS and speak publicly - she was shown walking along the busy Stratford Road, Birmingham, in scenes from her new life.