WE’LL SUE GOVT TO GET OUR JIHADI JACK BACK
Parents: He’s been tortured
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THE parents of the Syria Brit known as Jihadi Jack are threatening to sue the British Government in a bid to get him home.
John and Sally Letts say he is being tortured by a Kurdish militia group that captured him as he fled Islamic State capital Raqqa. They claim the Foreign Office has made no attempt to get him transferred to UK custody.
The couple have heard nothing from their son since July 8 when he sent messages from his jail cell.
The 21-year-old, from Oxford, insists he does not fight for Isis and condemned the terror group before he was caught.
Tayab Ali, a lawyer for the family, said they are suing the Foreign Office, and will file a complaint against Kurdish officials who are holding him.
They will claim that Jack, who ran off to Syria aged 18, is suffering “inhuman and degrading treatment” and that the UK is “complicit” in his torture.
In messages to his parents Jack has claimed Kurdish interrogators are being supplied with questions by British officials.
If Mr Ali’s request is refused, he says he will go to the High Court on the grounds that the Government is failing in its duty to assist British citizens.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the Government could do nothing while Letts was in Syria, because there is no UK consulate there.
His parents told last week how the last three years had been a “nightmare”.