THE mother of Kosta Scurfield feels a lack of government action against Islamic extremists meant her son felt he had to take action and paid the ultimate price.
Vasiliki Scurfield said she could not help thinking that if the government had done more, her son may still be alive.
Kosta, 25, travelled to Syria in December to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. He was killed in combat in the Hasaka region of the war-torn country – the first Briton to lose his life fighting IS terrorists.
Vasiliki said: "I would like to ask the government why they aren't doing anything practical to combat IS anywhere other than Iraq.
"I can't help feeling that if they were doing more, then Kosta wouldn't have had to go and then he wouldn't be dead. I feel incredibly sad that his country put him in a position that he felt in order to meet the values his country supports, he had to go out there."
Vasiliki, 49, of Manor Occupation Road, Royston, hopes to gain 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for more to be done. It will then be discussed in Parliament.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated April 24. **
