‘Jihadi Jack’ held in Syria for link to IS

A BRITON dubbed Jihadi Jack has been charged with belonging to Islamic State, it was claimed yesterday.

Jack Letts, 21, went to Syria in 2014 and was later captured by the Kurdishled YPG which has been battling the terror group.

Officials of the selfdeclared Democratic Federation of Northern Syria said he was being held in a jail under investigation by local police.

Letts converted to Islam at school in Oxford and went to Jordan at 18. He travelled in Syria and Iraq, married and had a child.

His parents Sally and John, who have been charged with funding terrorism by sending him cash, deny he went to Syria to fight for IS. They claim he simply “disappeared” in Kurdish-held territory.