DOCTORS are to use skin made from SHARKS to treat the terror suspect horrifically burned in the Glasgow Airport attack.
Surgeons struggling to save Kafeel Ahmed, 27, have turned to a revolutionary treatment.
The expensive process involves a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cow tendons. A source said: “Ahmed is being treated with these grafts because there is nothing left on his body that can be used.”
The Glasgow Royal Infirmary insider added: “He is receiving the latest technology to try to heal the skin — but there is still little hope of him surviving.
“In the past, pig skin was used to treat severe burns, but the shark skin treatment is used now.”
The process — a system called Integra Dermal Regeneration Template which costs more than £20,000 — involves doctors placing silicone implants with shark skin extracts on to the burns.
After two weeks, the outer protective silicone layer is removed and replaced with a layer of skin thinner than a graft.
A chemical in the shark skin prevents a scar from forming and allows the body to produce a skin-like tissue.
Surgeon Steve Jeffrey, who spent nine months in Australia perfecting the treatment, explained: “It tricks the body into creating new skin cells.”
Sources at the Royal Infirmary, where Ahmed is under armed guard, say he is in a coma. One said: “This person is effectively dead already.”
It is alleged Ahmed and Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah, 27, drove the flaming Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow Airport.
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