The brother of a Red Cross worker murdered in Sri Lanka is to fly to the country in an attempt to speed up the investigation into his death.
Nasir Shaikh said there were fears that political interference in Sri Lanka was hampering the progress of the inquiry into the killing of his brother Khuram Shaikh.
The 32-year-old Red Cross worker, a physiotherapist who was working for the International Red Cross in Gaza, was shot and stabbed by a gang while on holiday in the tourist resort of Tangalle on Christmas Day, December 2011.
Witnesses said Mr Shaikh - who was trained in conflict resolution - had attempted to act as a peacemaker when a fight broke out in the hotel where he was staying. His Russian colleague Victoria Alexandrovna, 23, who was with him, was left assaulted and badly injured.
Eight people have been bailed by police in connection with the killing, including a local politician, but no charges have been brought over a year after Mr Shaikh's death.
Mr Shaikh, accompanied by Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, will meet the Sri Lankan tourist minister, officials in the Attorney General's department and senior police officers in an attempt to put pressure on the authorities over the case.
Mr Shaikh said: "You always had that sense of insecurity when somebody is working in a war-torn country which my brother was.
But then actually to go to an idyllic environment where you feel that you are safer and to lose his life is unacceptable - it is traumatic in itself and we will never come to terms with that. Part of the grieving process is to get the answers, to find out exactly why, this should never have happened."
Mr Danczuk said he could not help worrying that "political interference" was one of the factors in the delays in bringing justice for Mr Shaikh.
"We need the court case to start and that is what we are pushing for," he said.
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