(CTV) Jack Letts has spent seven-and-a-half years in a legal black hole. Detained without charge in a secret prison in northeast Syria, he is accused of being a member of ISIS, but has never been tried or convicted. His parents, John Letts and Sally Lane, have fought tirelessly to bring him home.
Born in the U.K., Letts holds Canadian citizenship through his father. Each day, John Letts struggles with guilt over his son’s plight.
“I’ve had a good night’s sleep in a reasonably warm bed. Jack’s lying on a cement floor, suffering. I eat breakfast, and he doesn’t. I have a hot shower. I feel guilty,” he told W5. “So how do you live with that as a constant thing throughout your day? You can’t live with that.”
