A UK pensioner caught with homemade wine in
Saudi Arabia could receive 360 lashes - a
punishment his family say would kill him. Karl Andree, 74, has already spent more than a
year in prison since being arrested by Saudi
religious police. His daughter Kirsten Piroth told the BBC her father
who has suffered from three types of cancer -
“would not survive” the punishment lashes. The Foreign Office said it was “seeking his
release as soon as possible”. Alcohol is illegal in Saudi Arabia, and Mrs Piroth
said her father was transporting homemade
wine in his car in August 2014 when he was
pulled over and arrested.