A CAMPAIGNING Hagley doctor was today planning to run ten laps around the White House in his trusty orange jumpsuit to highlight the plight of the last Brit in Guantánamo Bay.

Amnesty International member Dr David Nicholl said he wanted to focus American attention on the plight of Shaker Aamer - who has been held without trial or charge for more than 13 years in the notorious US prison camp in Cuba.

So while in Washington for a neurology conference - the 50-year-old hospital consultant, who is in training for next week's London Marathon, was planning to run ten laps around the White House in his brightly coloured replica prison uniform with an image of Mr Aamer on the front.

Starting in Capitol Hill, the planned route takes in the Washington and Lincoln Memorials - with the finish line at Pennsylvania Avenue/North Lawn view of the White House where members of Witness Against Torture campaign group are expected to gather.

The campaigning doc was also planning to take along an Amnesty International petition on Mr Aamer’s case for US President Barack Obama - calling for the immediate release of the 46-year-old detainee and his return to the UK.

Dr Nicholl, who last month took the 41,000-signature petition to the gates of Downing Street as part of the campaign for justice, said: "Shaker has been held without charge or trial longer than the entire length of the US War of Independence and Civil War combined.

"What would George Washington or Abraham Lincoln make of a president like Barack Obama who said he’d close Guantánamo yet has completely failed to do so?

"With Guantánamo we’re talking about something that’s completely outside international law and fundamentally against everything America stands for.

“Shaker’s case is about very basic principles - you don’t lock someone up for years without giving them a proper trial. Since no charges have been brought, it’s as simple as that. Shaker should be sent back to London to be with his family."

Dr Nicholl, who ran the 2005 London Marathon to highlight Mr Aamer's case, plans to again complete the 26-mile road race in the same orange jumpsuit - while wearing chains and handcuffs.

He said: “I ran the London Marathon for Shaker a decade ago and never dreamt I’d be preparing to do it all over again. Whatever slight aches and pains I might feel as a result of doing the marathon will honestly be as nothing compared to the years of torment Shaker and his family have gone through.”

In January during a visit to Washington, Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly raised Mr Aamer’s plight with US President Barack Obama who was reported to have said US authorities would “prioritise” the case of the Saudi-born UK resident whose wife and children are British and live in London.

And in a debate in the House of Commons last month - the UK government backed a motion calling on the US “to release Shaker Aamer from his imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay and to allow him to return to his family in the UK".

Mr Aamer, who claims to have been tortured at Guantánamo and who is reportedly suffering from numerous ailments, is one of 122 inmates still incarcerated at the camp which has held a total of 779 detainees since 2002.

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen described Guantánamo as a "travesty of justice" and said: “It’s astonishing that over 100 detainees - including Shaker - are still held at this miserable place.”

Anyone wishing to sponsor Dr Nicholl's marathon efforts for Shaker can do so online at www.justgiving.com/FreeShaker