Face Of The UK Woman Who Refused To Remove Her Niqab In Court.

If you have been following the UK news lately, you have probably read about a Muslim woman that refuses to show her face in court, well, she was actually a Muslim convert. she was accused of threatening a caretaker because he let tourists into a mosque with their heads uncovered. it get even more interesting.

She hails from a devoutly Christian family and started wearing the veil only as recently as 2012 after being 'radicalized' by a ‘Muslim vigilante’. The picture you saw was taken six years ago and depicts a carefree teenager enjoying listening to music and dancing with her relatives. 

Many UK news outlets report that, few years ago, she shocked family members by turning up at the funeral of her grandmother Delcie Dawson wearing a burka. UK daily mail reports that:

"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.’ Brought up in a broken and violent household, Dawson had a chaotic childhood that may give an insight into her rejection of Western values. Born in South London in 1991, the jobless Muslim fanatic is the fifth of six children.

"Her father, Christopher, 54, was released from prison last year after serving a five-year sentence for trying to smuggle £100,000 worth of cannabis into the UK from Ethiopia. This week, Blackfriars Crown Court heard how Dawson had recruited her brother Matthias to help her frighten a caretaker at Finsbury Park Mosque in North London because he had let three Portuguese charity workers into the building on June 4 last year."