By Jack Elsom and Danyal Hussain For Mailonline
Published: 08:41 BST, 22 June 2019 | Updated: 08:41 BST, 22 June 2019
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Jihadi Jack has admitted his cold-blooded ambition to carry out an ISIS suicide car bombing during his time with the murderous caliphate.
The 23-year-old, whose real name is Jack Letts, has revealed that he was prepared to die slaughtering targets of the jihadist militant group and branded himself an 'enemy of Britain'.
Letts, who left his Oxford home in 2014 to join ISIS in their once stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, spoke of his evil desire in a shocking interview from his Kurdish jail.
'They don't ask you but they encourage you, in a sort of indirect way. I used to want to at one point believe it or not. I now think it's actually haram [forbidden],' he told the BBC.
He added: 'I did at one point want to. Not a vest, I wanted to do it in a car. Hey so I said "if there's a chance, I will do it."'
He gave the interview in October but it has only now been released following the conclusion of his parents' trial.
Yesterday, John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, were found guilty of funding terrorism by sending their Muslim
