By Vanessa Allen
Last updated at 12:22 AM on 30th August 2011
The Lockerbie bomber’s family have made an astonishing appeal to Britain for medical help to prolong his life.
Abdelbaset Al Megrahi is said to be slipping in and out of a coma two years after he was released from a Scottish prison, supposedly with three months to live.
Relatives claim his prostate cancer drugs were stolen by rebels after they seized control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, where the family live in a large villa.
Coma: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the murder of 270 people in the 1988 airliner bombing, is surviving on an intravenous drip in a room in his family's palatial villa
Megrahi, 59, is believed to have been taking a drug which costs £3,000 a month and is not licensed in Europe.
With the fall of the Gaddafi regime, which funded him, his supply from the US has been interrupted so his family are asking Scotland to supply the same chemotherapy medicine he received before his release.
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The request will anger relatives of the 270 killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, some of whom have called for Megrahi to be extradited back to Britain to serve the rest of his sentence.
But his brother Abdul told the Daily Mail yesterday: ‘He went to court, he’s been tried by law. Shame on those who ask for him to go to court again. We never thought they could be so cruel. They should respect him as a human. He’s a man in a coma.’
Abdul added: ‘We asked for medicine from Scotland on Sunday, but we have not had any reply. Most of the medicines he needs are expensive and we can’t find them in Tripoli. The revolutionaries stole most of it on the first day they came into Tripoli.
Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif leads the hero's welcome for Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi on his return to Libya from Scotland on August 20, 2009
He denied rumours that his brother had fled Libya with Colonel Gaddafi, and insisted he was inside the family’s villa
Al-Megrahi pictured looking frail and in a wheelchair in his room at a hospital in Tripoli back in September 9, 2009 as families raged at his release
He said Megrahi was being kept alive with oxygen and an intravenous drip, but desperately needed more medicine.
Megrahi was last seen in public at a televised Gaddafi in Tripoli last month, staged to support Gaddafi.
The US broadcaster CNN filmed Megrahi inside the villa on Sunday as the National Transitional Council sought to quell rumours that he had fled the country. CNN reporter Nic Robertson said: ‘He appears to be a shell of the man that he was, far sicker than he appeared before … at death’s door.’
Relatives of those killed when the Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie in 1988 were divided over what should happen to Megrahi, the only man convicted over the atrocity. Frank Duggan, president of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 group, said: ‘The gall of this monster is beyond understanding.
‘There’s no way the Scots should go along with this request – they’ve done more than enough for him already. This miserable little murderer was living in a virtual country club while in jail in Scotland – with his family nearby, his own kitchen and prayer room, cable TV and other home comforts. Now he wants more help.
‘We’re not vengeful people – we believe Megrahi should have been allowed to die in a prison hospital. By all means bring him back to Scotland, if that can now be done.
‘We’ve heard many times before that Megrahi is close to death and I don’t believe he’s as sick as his family are making out.’
However Dr Jim Swire, whose 23-year-old daughter Flora died in the atrocity, said Megrahi should be left in Libya to die in peace.
Crime: Megrahi is the only person convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 22 December 1988
The retired GP said: ‘He should have been accorded a peaceful end in Tripoli with his family. The idea of extraditing him is a monstrous one… He deserves to be left in peace for his last days.’
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Professor Robert Black, an Edinburgh University legal expert and one of the bomber’s leading supporters, said he should receive any available help.
He said: ‘Anything we can do to alleviate the suffering of an innocent man – including giving him drugs that may not be available here – we should do.’
Scottish Tory deputy leader Murdo Fraser said: ‘If Megrahi is in urgent need of medical attention he should be returned to Greenock jail where he will get a very high standard of medical care in conditions of comparative safety.
‘It would be simply outrageous if there was any suggestion that Megrahi should receive treatments that are not available to people living in Scotland and it will cause real upset to cancer sufferers and their families in the UK.’
The National Transitional Council has ruled out sending Megrahi back to Britain and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said his government had no intention of seeking Megrahi’s return.
He said the investigation into the bombing remained open and the Scottish Crown Office would investigate any new evidence.
Cancer specialists have claimed the decision to release Megrahi from Greenock Prison on compassionate grounds was based on flawed medical evidence.
His brother said: ‘What’s the difference if he dies here or there? It’s just one life. I know some people think he’s not really dying but they don’t know anything. They haven’t seen him.
‘The cancer has already spread to his liver. He can’t walk. He looks like he is 100 years old.’
East Renfrewshire council and the Scottish government issued a joint statement saying there had been contact through Megrahi’s family over the weekend.
The authorities refused to confirm or deny if the family had appealed for medical help, and insisted they had not funded or helped with his medical treatment since his return to Libya.
A LUXURY VILLA 'BUT WE'RE JUST LIKE ANY OTHER LIBYAN FAMILY
At the Megrahi villa in an exclusive area of Tripoli, olive and palm trees grow in the courtyard behind tall security gates which protect his family from the public gaze.
But yesterday his brother insisted the family – said to have been bankrolled by the Gaddafi regime – were ‘ordinary Libyans’.
Abdul said: ‘We’re the same as all the Libyan people. They have no water, we have no water. They have no electricity, we have no electricity. We’re just the same.’
He said 11 members of the extended family lived inside the gated compound, where there are signs of another three-storey house being built next door.
He said his brother should be allowed to die in peace at the home, insisting he was ‘very sick’ and might not even be aware that rebels had taken control of Tripoli.
‘He can’t walk or speak more than a few words. He’s in a coma.
‘We don’t talk to him about the war. He just asks for food or water, or to see his family.
‘All the professional doctors say he’s going to die. Now the doctors don’t come any more.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031568/Libya-Lockerbie-bomber-Abdelbaset-al-Megrahi-begs-Britain-cancer-drugs.html#ixzz1WT17l7WC
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