The riddle of dentist’s trip to see patient called ‘Hana Gaddafi’ in Libya

Documents have been found which could solve the mystery surrounding the alleged death of the daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, The Daily Mail reported.

The dictator claimed that his adopted baby girl Hana, then three years old, was killed in a US bombing raid on Tripoli in 1986.

But now files uncovered last week at the Libyan embassy in Knightsbridge, show a London dentist was flown to the country in 2008 to treat a patient called Hana Gaddafi.

Hana’s death has never been verified and many Libyans believe she survived the attack and grew up in London as a teenager before moving to Tripoli where it is claimed she still lives.

The raid is said to have led to Gaddafi ordering terrorist reprisals on the West, including the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people.

Documents, seen by the Daily Telegraph, were found in a basement room by rebels fighting the Libyan regime, who took formal control of the ‘People’s Bureau’ last week.

They show that in April 2008, Libyan ambassador Omar Jelban personally arranged for a business class flight to Tripoli for dentist Stephen Hopson.

In a fax to Mr Jelban, the dentist said he would be treating a patient identified as ‘Miss Hana Ghaddafi.’ Mr Hopson was quoted as confirming he would stay a week before returning to Britain.

The ambassador wrote a signed letter to Arab Tours asking them to issue tickets to him for a British Airways flight and to send the invoice to the embassy.

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on Mr Hopson’s part, but the documents will revive speculation about the dictator’s daughter.

Today the dentist said he was ‘neither admitting or denying’ anything and declined to give any details about the patient.

He told the paper: “There’s an element of patient confidentiality and if you were a patient you wouldn’t want me revealing anything about any care that you had received and that’s why I can make no comment.”

Asked if there could a second Hana Gaddafi, he replied: “It’s not beyond the realms of possibility.”

In 1999, the official Chinese state news agency reported a Hana Gaddafi was present at a lunch her father held for Nelson Mandela.

A Libyan government official claimed that Hana is Gaddafi’s second adopted daughter after the first one was killed in the 1986 bombing.