One of the three sons from a family stripped of their British citizenship by a secret court (Collect)

A BRITISH-BORN father and three of his four sons have been stripped of their citizenship for alleged links to terrorism amid claims that he and his family are victims of the UK’s secret courts.

Speaking for the first time, the Newcastle-born father said the terrorism-related allegations levelled against him and his children, who were also born in the UK, were “tearing our family apart”.

He admitted his daughter had gone to Syria with her husband, a known jihadist thought to be aligned with Jubhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda-affiliated group, but said this was without his knowledge.

The government has issued an order that prevents the father and his children from being named after a legal attempt to reinstate their citizenship was thrown out by the Special