Suspect questioned over Bigley beheading

A Turkish prosecutor, in the presence of British police officials, today questioned a suspected al-Qaida militant over the decapitation of British engineer Kenneth Bigley in Iraq, the state-run Anatolia news agency has reported.

Loa’i Mohammed Haj Bakr al-Saqa – a Syrian who is on trial in Istanbul accused of masterminding a series of suicide bombings in the city – allegedly presided over an informal court that sentenced Bigley to death in Iraq in accordance with Islamic sharia law, his former lawyer, Osman Karahan, claimed back in April.