“I thought I’d seen some shit in my life … but this is as bad as it gets,” wrote Letts, in exchanges read to an Old Bailey jury. In one Facebook post, his father implored his son: “Why haven’t you at least contacted us to explain, Jack? Please phone, Jack.”After discovering he might be in Syria, Letts wrote to one friend: “I fucked up big time. My turn to feel the pain of war, my brother.”To Jack, Letts wrote: “Your life here with me went too fast, my boy. His performance at school suffered due to his obsessive compulsive disorder his father said in a police statement.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2019 14:59 UTC