‘I’m putting all my secrets out there’ With new book, mother of so-called Jihadi Jack seeks redemption for her son
The last nine years of Sally Lane’s life have been a cascade of crushing disappointments.
In 2014, her son, Jack Letts, a British-born Muslim convert, travelled to the Middle East to study his faith. His quest led him astray, to Syria and Iraq, the lands controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group.
Lane sent her son, who has Canadian citizenship, the money he sought to escape the war-ravaged territory only to be charged and convicted along with her husband, under U.K. terrorism financing laws in 2019.
She sought out allies to help Letts only to have them turn up as prosecution witnesses against her.
