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Lockerbie bomber begs Britain for cancer drugs two years after he was freed as a dying man
 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.
| Bummer. What a downer, man. |
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.'
| But if he is comatose he isn't suffering, right? |
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.'
| Put him on the NHS waiting list like everyone else. He should get an answer in five years or so. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-30 |
