Jihadi Jack ‘married into a top ISIS family and has been playing down his status within the terror group’
- Jack Letts is ‘downplaying’ his status within ISIS, says one documentary maker
- The Muslim convert, 24, from Oxfordshire, declared himself an ‘enemy of Britain’
- His parents have pleaded for him to be allowed to return and face trial in the UK
British Islamist ‘Jihadi Jack’ Letts married into a ‘top’ ISIS family and has been playing down his status within the terror group, it has been claimed.
The 24-year-old Muslim convert from Oxfordshire, who declared himself an ‘enemy of Britain’ and fled to the Middle East to join ISIS, has already been stripped of his UK citizenship.
Now a former British soldier who fought ISIS has claimed that Letts married the daughter of an Iraqi tribal leader, who he has a son with, before being captured in northern Syria in 2017.
Muslim convert Jack Letts, from Oxfordshire, has been pictured gaunt and lying on the floor in an overcrowded jail in northern Syria
Alan Duncan, who fought ISIS alongside the Kurds, told The Sun that Letts ‘definitely’ married into a high-ranking family within the radical Islamist organisation.
Mr Duncan, who over the course of two years interviewed dozens of jailed jihadis for a documentary, said Letts has been downplaying his status within ISIS.
He said: ‘He definitely married into a top ISIS Iraqi family and that explains why he was down in Mosul.
‘The tribal leaders are what you would call Imans – as soon as a tribal leader gives his allegiance to ISIS he becomes an Emir. They basically become a leader in ISIS.
‘Letts married into that family.’
Mr Duncan, who is a former sniper in the British army, also questioned how the young terrorist ended up in northern Iraq despite being last pictured in Mosul Dam in 2015.
Jihadi Jack travelled to Kuwait in 2014, telling his parents he wanted to improve his Arabic before he made his way to Syria.
Mr Duncan added that the terrorist is clearly higher in the organisation than he admits to.