Parents of Muslim convert ‘Jihadi Jack’ deny sending more than £1,500 to ISIS fighter son
The pair's son Jack Letts, 20, joined the depraved death cult when he was 18-years-old
THE parents of ISIS fighter ‘Jihadi Jack' have denied sending money to their brainwashed son in Syria.
Organic farmer John Letts, 56, and Sally Lane, 54, are accused of sending Jack Letts, £1,723 in three separate payments after he joined the depraved death cult in the war torn country.
Jack, now 20, left his middle class family home in Oxford to travel to Syria last year "to search for the truth" when he was just 18.
They are both accused under the terrorism laws of three counts of arranging to send money to their son between September 2015 and January this year.
Lane is also charged with a further two charges of attempting to send money on January 4 this year, but she did not enter a plea.
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Both wearing grey suits, they were frisked by security staff as they entered the dock at the Old Bailey today.
The pair spoke only to confirm their names and plead not guilty to three counts of entering into a funding arrangement for the purposes of terrorism on September 2 and December 31, 2015 and then January 4 this year.
Ms Lane and Mr Letts will both have to report to a police station each week, they cannot apply for international travel documents and are not allowed to send money to Jack Letts.
The couple were granted bail in June after Mr Justice Saunders said: "These two are clearly desperately concerned about their son."
Describing them as "devoted parents" of "positive good character" he added: "So two perfectly decent people have ended up in custody because of the love of their child."
Letts said in an online statement he hated his parents "for the sake of Allah" because they were non-believers, but told Channel 4 News he disagrees with ISIS and is not currently fighting for them.
Both defendants, of Chilswell Road, Oxford, are due to face a trial on January 9 next year.
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