Letts speaks to Sky News yesterday (Image: Kwee Ping)
In his first interview since his parents were convicted of funding terrorism by sending him cash, the suspected Islamic State militant said he would "love to return home" and regrets what he put them through. Letts, who comes from a middleclass family in the Home Counties, left Britain in 2014 and became a poster boy for IS recruiters. He spoke to Sky News from the prison in northern Syria where he is being held by Kurdish authorities, accused of being a member of IS.
Insisting British people are "my people", he added: "I've no intention of blowing them up, that's probably important."
Held in jail for two years, Letts, 24, faces being banned from returning to Britain under laws that allow Home Secretary Sajid Javid to strip him of his citizenship, provided it would not make him stateless.
Parents Sally Lane, 57, and John Letts, 58, ignored warnings their son could have joined IS in Syria and tried to wire him cash.
Letts said: "I feel guilty because I'm the reason they [his parents] are going through this. I understand I am being punished because of what I have done but my mother shouldn't be punished for that.
"They didn't do anything wrong.
"They sent me money to leave [Syria]. It's not like they were funding some sort of terrorist activity. "Two atheists being convicted for Islamic terrorism doesn't make much sense."
Letts admitted he taught recruits under 15 - known as "cubs" - about IS ideology. After nearly losing a limb in battle, he contributed to Dabiq, an online recruitment magazine and made
