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 to live with us and the rest of his family in safety.’
Photographs of Adam sit on top of a chest of drawers at the couple’s terraced home. The couple also have a property in Kashmir in their native Pakistan.
Ms Zohra added: ‘Our preference is to care for Adam but if needs be we can live with him in Pakistan as we have a property there. We will move if needs be.’
Iqbal and Wajda lived in Raqqa – a city synonymous with cruelty and barbarism, with beheadings and other atrocities part of everyday life and where Adam lived.
When the city fell, the couple moved to the town of Baghouz – ISIS’ last stronghold in Syria – where Iqbal texted his family for the last time to tell them his wife and son were being sent to a refugee camp.
His sister Nadia, 42, told MailOnline: ‘We don’t know where he is, he is most likely being detained somewhere in Syria but we’ve had no contact from him for the last five-years.
‘We’ve not heard from Wajda either, we only know of her and Adam’s whereabouts because my brother told us they were being taken there in the last ever message he sent us.
A photograph of Adam, who Iqbal’s parents say they want to take care of
‘My parents have never spoken to Adam nor seen him, other than in photographs sent by Wajda’s family in Yorkshire.
‘My brother and Wajda regretted ever going to Syria but they are now paying the price for that decision. Yasser is likely imprisoned for a significant period of his life.
‘Adam played no part in any of this. He is a wholly innocent child, who will eventually become an orphan without a mother or father.
‘What future is there for him? He’s in a camp where violence is commonplace and where there is no clean water.
‘He will be passed from camp to camp for the sins of his parents when he has a home here.
‘If she cannot come back to Britain, then her son, who has done nothing wrong, must be able to be given some chance to live a life of safety here with us.’
Photographs of Adam sit on top of a chest of drawers at the couple’s terraced home
