CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - A parliamentary delegation led by Chairman of the Human Rights Committee Alaa Abed left on Thursday for London on a three-day visit to follow up developments of investigations into the brutal murder of 18-year-old Egyptian student Mariam Abdel Salam in Nottingham. The delegation is set to hold a series of meetings with UK officials to get acquainted with the circumstances and facts of the murder. The delegation will hold talks with Simon McDonald, the Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service. The delegation is also expected to meet MP for Nottingham East, Chris Leslie in the presnece of Robert Griffin, the investigator who is in charge of Mariam's case. A meeting with President of the Egyptian-British Parliamentary Friendship group Stephen Timms, is scheduled to be held as well. The delegation will also meet with Mariam's family, the Egyptian doctor who followed up her condition and the Egyptian lawyer assigned with her case. MP Alaa Abed said in a pre-departure statement that this important visit comes in coordination with the Egyptian Ambassador to the UK Naser Kamel who set the visit's agenda, in an bid to facilitate the mission of finding the truth behind Mariam's death.
