Desperate: Shaker Aamer, who can only speak to his family via Skype from Guantanamo Bay For a few agonising moments, the iPad screen was blank. Then, at last, it flickered to life, to be filled by a familiar round face with a white-flecked beard and deeply-etched lines. Though the man forced one of his big, trademark smiles, fear and misery were seared in his eyes; though he tried to sound optimistic. Gathered around the screen, his family bolstered his spirits with uplifting stories about their lives – how his children were faring well at school and growing up to make him proud; yet they, too, struggled to mask their sorrow.
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Shaker Aamer has been held in Guantanamo Bay without trial for 13 years
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He is the last British detainee in the US camp in Cuba
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Father-of-four was captured in Afghanistan and handed to US forces
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He has been allowed to make two Skype calls to British wife in past month
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Most recent call was facilitated by the Red Cross
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He 'wanted to know whether anyone outside family cared about him'
Whatever the truth, his family say he would welcome the opportunity to stand trial in a @placeholder court, or indeed any court, to prove his innocence.