‘If my brother dies, his blood will be on Blair’s hands’

AN 86-year-old Irish-woman was waiting in anguish last night to hear news of the fate of her second eldest son held hostage in Iraq.

The mother of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was being sedated last night as the family held a vigil waiting in agony to hear news of his fate as the hours ticked by after the second American captive’s beheaded body was officially identified.

For months Elizabeth Bigley, whose maiden name is Kelly and who comes from Ticknock close to Stepaside, Dublin, has been praying her second eldest son Ken, 62, would heed the pleas of the family and flee Iraq.