ISLAMABAD, July 22: A British man will be hanged on Aug 3 after the family of a man he allegedly murdered refused a “blood money” deal, jail officials said.

Mirza Tahir Hussain, who has spent 18 years fighting his death sentence for killing a taxi driver in 1988, had been granted a one-month stay of execution in May by President Gen Pervez Musharraf.

“The stay of execution expired on July 10 and we approached the sessions judge to fix a new date for the execution,” Falak Sher, the official in-charge of the warrant section at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, told AFP.

“I received the orders yesterday. The execution is fixed for August 3.”

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other officials have appealed to President Gen Musharraf to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.—AFP