Ex-UK schoolboy ‘Jihadi Jack’, 29, begs to be sent to Canadian jail from his Syrian prison as his mother moans British government ‘thinks it’s okay to completely destroy him’ [Video]

15:23 EST 01 Dec 2024, updated 06:26 EST 02 Dec 2024

Britain’s ‘Jihadi Jack’ has pleaded to be repatriated to Canada so he can ‘rot in jail’ there instead of staying in a Syrian prison camp. 

Jack Letts, 29, a Canadian originally from the UK who has been detained for seven-and-a-half years among suspected Islamic State members in northeastern Syria, was found by a television crew in a prison near Raqqa.

The bombshell interview with CTV News’ W5 programme is the first time Letts has appeared on camera or been allowed to speak to media since 2019.

The Muslim convert had held duel UK and Canadian citizenship but declared himself an ‘enemy of Britain’ after fleeing his Oxfordshire home to fight in Syria in 2014.

After being captured by Kurdish authorities in 2017, he begged to be allowed back to the UK.

In Saturday’s interview, Letts denied he had ever been an IS member, but told how there were things …