TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2019Labour: Britain has a duty to
deal with Jihadi Jack
The 24-year-old has spent the past two years in a Kurdish prison (ITV News)
LIZZIE DEARDEN
SECURITY CORRESPONDENT
It is “not justice in any sense” to strip Isis fighters of their British citizenship rather than putting them on
trial, the government has been told. Diane Abbott, Labour’s shadow home secretary, said the UK has a duty
to deal with Jack Letts and other captured jihadis itself.
“Whenever there are reasonable grounds to suspect that someone who is entitled to return to this country
has either committed or facilitated acts of terrorism, they should be fully investigated and where
appropriate prosecuted,” she told The Independent. “We are not in favour of making people stateless, that’s