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The parents of a Porsche-driving barrister who left Britain to join ISIS today begged the government to help his jihadi bride to return to the UK so their grandson can live with them.
Yasser Iqbal was a high-flying lawyer turned immigration solicitor who boasted he earned more in a day than most people do in a month when he flew to Syria to fight for Islamist fanatics.
Iqbal took with him his former wife, Wajda Rashid, who is now being held with their son in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
Rashid has pleaded with the UK to take her back from a 'ticking time bomb' Syrian refugee camp where 19 UK women and 35 children are detained in just one compound and where ISIS ideology still runs rampant, according to a camp commander.
Now her mother-in-law, Rafat Zohra, has asked the Foreign Office to help bring Rashid home so their grandson has a safe place to grow up.
Yasser Iqbal was a high-flying lawyer turned immigration solicitor who boasted he earned more in a day than most people do in a month when he flew to Syria to fight for ISIS
His former wife, Wajda Rashid, 45, is pictured at a refugee camp in Syria
Speaking from the family home, Ms Zohra, 72, said: 'We want to look after Adam, he is our grandson and everything to us.
'The thought of him being in a lawless camp in Syria is unbearable. He is an innocent boy who has done nothing wrong.
'We don't know for sure where Yasser is, but we think he is in jail. Wajda also broke the law but she should be held accountable here in Britain and Adam should be able
