Alex Allan, Britain's leading spymaster, gravely ill in hospital

telegraph.co.uk     04-Jul-2008            

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Doctors are running a series of tests on Britain's top spymaster to try and identify the mystery illness which has put him in a coma. Alex Allan has been described as "very, very seriously ill" as he lies in a bed in the intensive care unit at a West London hospital. Doctors have run a battery of tests but have been unable to identify what caused him to collapse at his home on Monday. He was found by a tenant entering the house on Monday afternoon and rushed to hospital but has not regained consciousness and has been unable to talk to either doctors or police. Two police officers were at the hospital when Mr Allan was brought in and notified Scotland Yard. The Counter Terrorism Command has investigated but is so far treating the illness as non-suspicious however the mystery illness... [read full story]                    


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