FURY erupted yesterday as it was revealed the NHS is lavishing more than £5,000 a day battling to save the suspected car bomber who turned himself into a human torch at Glasgow airport.
The whopping bill for specialist treatment is being run up even though Kafeel Ahmed’s chances of survival are said to be “practically zero”.
The cost to taxpayers emerged as Scotland Yard last night brought the first charges over the attempted bomb blitz on the UK a week ago.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Ahmed’s alleged accomplice — an Iraqi doctor who worked at the hospital he was taken to — will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Dr Bilal Abdullah, 27, is accused of plotting last Saturday’s Glasgow horror AND two failed car bombs the day before in London’s West End.
Alleged would-be suicide bomber Ahmed, 27 — accused of trying to kill holidaymakers by ramming a blazing Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow’s terminal — suffered 90 per cent burns.
Hospital treatment, skin grafts and round-the-clock nursing care have already cost a massive £36,000.
Every day up to 15 cops are on armed guard at the hospital — costing taxpayers thousands MORE.
A source at Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital said: “It’s ironic considering he is accused of wanting to die. A lot of people think he should have been left to burn.”
Yesterday Ahmed was transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary’s specialist unit — as five more Indian doctors were quizzed in Australia over the UK terror attacks.
While consultants were deciding which other costly operations to perform on Ahmed, fresh details emerged about his past.
He was initially thought to be a medical doctor like alleged Jeep bomb accomplice Dr Abdullah. But it was revealed his doctorate is in aeronautical engineering.
Before allegedly setting fire to himself he warned his family in Bangalore, India, that he was going to be out of touch — because he was working on a hush-hush GLOBAL WARMING project.
He also called his parents to tell them an “earlier presentation” had flopped — believed to be a reference to the two car bombs that failed to go off in London’s West End the day before.
On his last trip back to Bangalore — on May 5 — he had told relatives: “I am involved in a large scale confidential project about global warming. The project has to be started in the United Kingdom.
“I will not be available by any means — phone or internet — for a week. So, please do not worry.”
In his call hours before the Glasgow incident he informed his mum Dr Zakia Ahmed and sister Sadia: “I told you earlier that sometime in future I will be inaccessible for a week. The time has come now.”
Ahmed is among EIGHT suspected terror plotters. The others are under arrest — one of them in Australia. All are linked to the NHS.
Four are doctors. They include Ahmed’s brother Dr Sabeel Ahmed, 26, who works at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire. Saudi-born brain surgeon Dr Mohammad Asha, 26, is the alleged ringleader. He and his lab technician wife Marwah, 27, were arrested on the M6.
The charge against Abdullah is under the 1883 Explosive Substances Act — and carries a maximum sentence of life.
The five Indian doctors questioned by Australian police yesterday had all worked in Britain. Computers, mobile phones and documents were seized at the Kalgoorlie and Royal Perth hospitals in Western Australia. The five were NOT arrested. But police Commissioner Mick Keelty stressed: “Links to the UK are becoming more concrete."
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