The family of singer Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, who died aged 53 at the weekend in Miami, say they are questioning his final hospital treatment.

Maurice's brother, Barry, says the family will fight to discover the truth about his death after abdominal surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Centre.

"From the fact that they had to operate on Maurice during the shock of cardiac arrest, is very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline of the final hours of Maurice's life," Barry Gibb told BBC radio.

"We will pursue that relentlessly - that will be our quest from now on," he said.

There was no immediate comment from the hospital.

Maurice, whose harmonies with his twin Robin and elder brother Barry, 55, helped create one of the best-selling groups of the 1970s, collapsed on Thursday (local time) at his Miami home after suffering intense stomach pain and was rushed to the Mount Sinai hospital.

The hospital says he "experienced cardiac arrest" before his surgery on an intestinal blockage.

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2003

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After the operation and until he died, he was listed in a critical but stable condition.

No time of death was given but it appeared to have been very early on Sunday.

Maurice, born on the Isle of Man and raised in Manchester, had been a heavy drinker and briefly dabbled in cocaine before sobering up in the early 1990s. Print-friendy versionPrint Send to a friendEmail

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2003