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Canadian-born Letts says the chilling nightmares have prevented him from sleeping more than a few hours a night for the last four years, as he and his wife faced the prospect of prison time after being charged under a U.K. terrorism funding law — for sending money to their son in ISIL-held Syria.

Letts’ great fear was landing in jail and being unable to help Jack, who is accused of being part of ISIL and is now being held in a Kurdish-run prison in northern Syria.

Their closely watched trial in a London court ended last week with a conviction on just one of three charges — over a $386 cash transfer to a friend of Jack’s in Lebanon. The couple were spared jail but say the unusual prosecution has laid waste to their lives, forcing Letts to sell his organic-farming business, all but ending wife Sally Lane’s career and leaving them destitute.