A KINCARDINE dad awaiting extradition from Iraq has spoken about the "rat infested" and overcrowded prison he is having to share with murderers.

On a call to his family, Brian Glendinning revealed the “terrible” conditions he has been living in for five weeks while he waits to be sent to Qatar over an unpaid loan he took out in 2016.

The Press previously told how he had been travelling through Iraq to get to his new job in Qatar when he was stopped going through airport security.

Brian had an Interpol red notice against him and had been sentenced in absentia to two years in prison in Qatar.

In a recorded call to his family, shared with the Press, the dad-of-three said: “All I’m going to say is, where I’m being held right now in Iraq, the conditions are terrible. It's rat infested, bug ridden, it’s a soiled mattress I’m sleeping on. There’s no warm water and the food is terrible.

“The overcrowding, there’s over 40 people in a holding cell that you would maybe have 12 people. The noise, there’s people up all night so you can't sleep. It’s mentally draining, I can’t speak the language, I’m isolated. I’m in beside people who have murdered their family members and all sorts. I shouldn’t be in here.”

His detention has been extended yet another week and his family are fighting hard to get him home. His wife Kimberly said: “I’m quite shocked that there’s rats and cockroaches running about the cell, it’s quite sad to hear.

“The showers are full of dirty water and that’s making his skin break out so his skin is all sore, he's even having to pay for food. He’s so hungry, he’s just eating bread and drinking water. He’s having to pay for absolutely everything, electricity, phone calls, the shower. He just really needs as much help as he can get.”

Brian has had little communication and has only been allowed outside three times in as many weeks. Kimberly says he is desperate to know what is being done to help him.

His brother, John, said: “He’s completely bitten from head to toe and it’s starting to scab, I’m worried about him getting an infection now. He’s started talking about giving up. It’s the hardest call I’ve had from Brian since this started.”

Radha Stirling, the extradition crisis consultant who has taken on Brian’s case, said: “The punishment is the process. Qatar regularly has foreigners detained abroad over bank debts even though they know they will lose an extradition request in court.

“Delaying the required documentation is a tactic employed to slow down the decision making process in Iraq. If they sent the file, Iraq would immediately see it is a civil case and lacks dual criminality. Brian would be freed. Instead, he is being held in horrendous detention conditions at the order of Qatar National Bank.”

Brian's MP, Douglas Chapman, said: “Last week I fired off letters to the Qatari ambassador in London, the British ambassador in Qatar and the UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, and I await their replies.

“This has come at a time when the UK Government is in political meltdown, however I can’t let a government in crisis in London get in the way of the human rights of Mr Glendinning who is being held in atrocious conditions in a foreign jail. I will be pressing the foreign secretary on whether he is taking direct action with the Qatari authorities to assist my constituent.

“At a time when Qatar is at the centre of global attention, through hosting the FIFA World Cup, this is dreadful publicity for them. You'd think they would want to project a better international reputation for themselves, which the Qatari government could do at the stroke of a pen by releasing Brian.”