This is the face of the Muslim fanatic who made legal history as the first woman to go on trial wearing the niqab.
Rebekah Dawson, 22 – whose refusal to remove the full face covering has caused controversy – is pictured here for the first time, dressed in a casual T-shirt.
The image can finally be revealed after she dramatically admitted witness intimidation yesterday.
Her guilty plea followed a six-day trial during which a judge controversially allowed her to wear the niqab after ruling that the court should recognise ‘freedom of religious expression’.
Today it can be disclosed that the Muslim convert – who threatened a caretaker because he let tourists into a mosque with their heads uncovered – hails from a devoutly Christian family and started wearing the veil only as recently as 2012 after being radicalised by a ‘Muslim vigilante’.
Pictures taken six years ago show her as a carefree teenager enjoying listening to music and dancing with her relatives. But just a few years later, she shocked family members by turning up at the funeral of her grandmother Delcie Dawson wearing a burka.
Her great uncle, Gilbert Bell, said her Jamaican-born grandmother worked as a nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and raised her family as strict Christians.
‘My sister Delcie would turn in her grave if she knew how Rebekah was carrying on,’ he added. ‘Delcie was very religious, a committed church-goer.’
Mr Bell’s wife Dorothy said: ‘I’m horrified and angry that a woman wants to put on an Islamic veil. That is like going backwards in women’s rights. I really can’t understand it at all.
SOURCE-DAILYM
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