Unbelievable

The family of British doctor, Dr Abbas Khan, blame the murderous Syrian regime for his untimely death which I can well understand because while people do sometimes die in custody - it is unusual for such a terrible thing to happen on the verge of a person's release.

Dr Abbas Khan was not a combatant - the 32-year old orthopaedic surgeon went to Syria to help save not take lives, but he was captured last year in the city of Aleppo in November 2012 having travelled via Turkey to help victims of hospital bombings.

The Syrian authorities say Dr Abbas took his own life - yet strangely he wrote to his family back in the UK only recently to say he was hoping to return home for Christmas to be reunited with his wife and two young children.

Not the kind of behaviour you would expect from a suicidal prisoner - yet on 17 December the Syrian Government announced that Dr Abbas had died suddenly and unexpectedly in their custody. 

Sometimes you don't need hard evidence to realise that certain people are lying through their teeth.