Britain's 'Jihadi Jack', 29, pleads to be repatriated to Canada 'to rot in jail' there rather than in a Syrian prison camp in his first television interview in years

Britain's 'Jihadi Jack' has pleaded to be repatriated to Canada so he can 'rot in jail' there instead of being sent to a Syrian prison camp, in his first TV interview in years. 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. 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 has now become the first time Letts has appeared on camera or been allowed to speak to media since 2019 Letts, a muslin 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 Letts' mother, Sally Lane, who has been calling for the Canadian government to repatriate all of its own citizens held in Syrian camps and prisons, told Middle East Eye that there seems to have been a clear deterioration in his condition in the past five years. Sally Lane, the mother of British-born Islamist 'Jihadi Jack' Lane, a former Oxfam fundraiser, and father John Letts, 62, became the first British parents to be charged with terrorism offences after sending money to their son in Syria Letts' case is similar to that of Shamima Begum, the 15-year-old from Bethnal Green, east London, who fled to Syria to join ISIS.