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		</div><p>The parents of a young man dubbed Jihadi Jack sent him money after he embarked on a “grand adventure”, a court in the UK has heard.</p>
<p>Muslim convert Jack Letts left his home in Oxford in 2014 aged 18, the Old Bailey heard.</p>
<p>There were “happy exchanges” with his supportive parents John Letts and Sally Lane who appeared to take the view that Jack was on a “grand adventure”, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC said.</p>
<p>The couple allegedly ignored warnings of their son’s behaviour and sent or tried to send him a total of £1,723 between September 2015 and January 2016.</p>
<p>At the time, they knew or had reason to suspect that Jack had joined Islamic State in Syria, the court heard.</p>
<p>Organic farmer Mr Letts, 58, and Ms Lane, 56, of Chilswell Road, Oxford, have denied three charges of funding terrorism.</p>
<p>Opening their trial, Ms Morgan said the pair were not terrorists and had never been in trouble with police before.</p>
<p>She said it was inevitable jurors would have “sympathy” for them as parents but added that terrorism laws were there for the “greater good”.</p>
<p>Ms Morgan said the defendants committed the offences in spite of warnings by a “wide variety of people”, including Jack’s friends, an academic, charity worker and numerous police officers.</p>
<p>She said: <em>“It was not open to these defendants to take the law into their own hands and to send money to their son, whatever their own reasons and motives may have been.”</em></p>
<p>The court heard how Jack Letts, now aged 23, had converted to Islam at the age of 16 and had attended a mosque in Cowley Road, Oxford.</p>
<p>A friend had tried to warn his parents that he had been radicalised before they allowed him to travel abroad in May 2014, jurors were told.</p>
<p>Ms Lane bought him a £400 return flight to Jordan despite confiding in a friend that Jack told her he was “going to fight in Syria”.</p>
<p>When he missed his flight home, Mr Letts emailed his son saying: <em>“It’s weird you so far away but hey, you are on a grand adventure.”</em></p>
<p>By August 2014, there were “clear warning signs” about Jack Letts’ intentions while in Kuwait, the court heard.</p>
<p>Kamal Dingle, an Oxford PhD student, emailed his father to say “there is some concern regarding the company he is keeping” there.</p>
<p>The following month, Mr Letts’ tone changed dramatically, as Jack moved towards Syria, the court heard.</p>
<p>In an email on September 3, Mr Letts emailed him: <em>“A father should never live to see his son buried.</em></p>
<p><em>“Please I beg you my son, come home or at least leave where you are and do not get involved.”</em></p>
<p>He went on to say that his mother was “collapsing with fear and sadness”, accusing him of misleading them.</p>
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