Hosni Mubarak's sons moved to bedside as his heart fails A defibrillator twice had to be used on Mr Mubarak as he lay in the Tora prison hospital in Cairo after doctors were unable to find a pulse, they said. He is said to have gone into a fast decline since being transferred to the prison after receiving a life sentence on June 2 for complicity in the deaths of hundreds of protesters shot during the uprising that led to his overthrow in February last year. Despite reports that he had slipped into a coma, he was alert enough to see his wife, Suzanne, on Sunday and to ask for his older son, Alaa, to join his younger son Gamal beside him. Both sons are in custody awaiting trial for share fraud, having been acquitted of corruption charges at the same time as their father was convicted. Opposition activists are suspicious of the claims of Mr Mubarak's fast decline, pointing out that he was frequently said to be near death after flying from his palace in Cairo to Sharm el-Sheikh after his resignation last year, reports which turned out to be untrue. They say it is a bid for sympathy mounted as part of attempts to have him transferred back to the comfortable military hospital where he had lived on remand. But Mr Mubarak's lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, quoted him as saying that his former army colleagues were "trying to kill him." He says: 'They want to kill me. Save me, Mr Farid, find me a solution'," Mr al-Deeb told the AFP news agency.