Bigley gets Irish passport in bid to save his life

THE family of Ken Bigley were last night hopeful that his new Irish passport would copperfasten efforts to secure the 62-year-old engineer’s release.

Within hours of the Government’s decision to issue the passport, images of the document were flashed on Al Jazeera and other networks in the Middle East.

Speaking from Amsterdam last night as photos of the Irish passport were received in Iraq, Paul Bigley said he was ecstatic.