I’m really finding it extremely difficult to care about this…
‘I’ve been tortured’: Jihadi Jack’s anguished messages to his parents in Oxford sent from Kurdish prison where he has been charged with being a member of ISIS
- Jack Letts, a middle-class Muslim convert from Oxford, escaped the former ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria before becoming a prisoner of a Kurdish militia
- The Mail on Sunday today publishes a harrowing series of text and internet audio messages that Letts, 21, sent from prison in the enclave of Rojava to his parents
- His parents have just ended a hunger strike to draw attention to his plight
Jack Letts, the middle-class Muslim convert from Oxford who escaped the former ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria only to become a prisoner of a Kurdish militia, claims he has been tortured and fears he is losing his mind.
The Mail on Sunday today publishes a harrowing series of text and internet audio messages that Letts, 21 – once dubbed ‘Jihadi Jack’ – has sent from prison in the enclave of Rojava, controlled by the Kurdish PYD group, to his parents, John and Sally.
The couple have just ended a week-long hunger strike hoping to draw attention to his plight.