Jihadi Jack admits he was an enemy of Britain and wanted to be ISIS suicide bomber

Jihadi Jack has admitted his cold-blooded ambition to carry out an ISIS suicide car bombing during his time with the extremist caliphate.

The 23-year-old, whose real name is Jack Letts, has revealed that he was prepared to die slaughtering targets of the jihadist militant group and branded himself an ‘enemy of Britain’.

Letts, who left his Oxford home in 2014 to join ISIS in their once stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, spoke of his evil desire in a shocking interview from his Kurdish jail.

‘They don’t ask you but they encourage you, in a sort of indirect way. I used to want to at one point believe it or not. I now think it’s actually haram [forbidden],’ he told the BBC.

He added: ‘I did at one point want to. Not a vest, I wanted to do it in a car. Hey so I said “if there’s a chance, I will do it.”‘

He gave the interview in October but it has only now been released following the conclusion of his parents’ trial.

Yesterday, John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, were found guilty of funding terrorism by sending their Muslim convert son £223.

Letts revealed how he joined ISIS because he thought he was ‘going to something better’.

Letts admitted: ‘If I was a member of the British public, I wouldn’t give me a second chance probably.’

He also spoke about why he joined the terror group, claiming: ‘I thought it was some sort of morality actually at the time.

‘Why do I have this nice life, and others don’t? And then, on top of that, the idea of it being an Islamic state and it’s actually your duty to do this.

‘I think it was probably just a very emotionally-driven period of my life. I’m just glad that I didn’t die.’

Letts, who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, is currently believed to be imprisoned by militia in northern Iraq.

He also admitted in the interview that he was a poster boy for ISIS.

Letts even admitted that he ‘loved’ living in the IS-stronghold of Raqqa but ran away in 2017 because the terror group were killing Muslims.

‘I didn’t have a full plan. I thought I’d just get to Turkey and ring my mum, and just be like ”I want to meet you somehow”.

The shocking revelations comes as his parents were found guilty of funding terrorism by sending him money in Syria.

Organic farmer John Letts and former Oxfam fundraising officer Sally Lane refused to believe their 18-year-old son Jack had become a dangerous extremist when they allowed him to travel to Syria.

The couple, from Oxford, ignored repeated warnings he had joined Islamic State in the war-torn country and tried to send him cash despite being told not to three times by police, their trial at the Old Bailey heard.

Source: Daily Mail