Daesh extremist’s British mother fears ‘liberal’ parenting may have led to radicalization

February 19, 2023   

(Arab News) The mother of a Daesh extremist known as “Jihadi Jack” has said that she has “guilty thoughts” about whether his “chaotic” childhood led him to join the terrorists as a teenager.

In an autobiography, Sally Lane says her “over-liberal” parenting style may have led her son, Jack Letts, to leave the UK at the age of 18 bound for Syria.

Lane said that she lived with a group of “lodgers, including an aggressive heroin addict whose friends regularly robbed the place” during Letts’s childhood.

Letts, now 27, left the UK in 2014 after his parents paid for him to visit a Muslim friend in Jordan.

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