Novichok victim Charlie Rowley "doesn’t have long left to live" as meningitis ravages his body, his brother fears.
The 45-year-old is fighting for life in Sailsbury District Hospital.
He was readmitted last month – just weeks after he survived being poisoned by the nerve agent which killed his 44-year-old partner Dawn Sturgess.
Matthew Rowley, 47, said he fears his brother "doesn’t have long left to live" as his condition worsens.
Mr Rowley claims he is showing "no sign of recovery".
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Charlie was taken back into hospital after he phoned 999 complaining he was going blind and had double vision.
Matthew says Charlie is now "totally blind and has lost use of his limbs" after being diagnosed with meningitis.
Matthew said: "I spoke to doctors and nurses and they say it doesn’t look good – he doesn’t have long left to live I fear.
"Charlie has lost hope because there is no sign of recovery.
"It’s not pretty – I spoke to him on Saturday and he said he can’t move his arms or legs."
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He continued: "He is totally blind in a critical condition and has been diagnosed with meningitis.
"He has also lost use of all his limbs.
"His immune system was ruined by the novichok and it made him susceptible to disease and illness.
"Sadly this is why he contracted meningitis.
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"Charlie is in an intensive care unit and his speech has changed completely – the tone of his voice is almost incoherent, he sounds like a child, like a 10-year-old boy.
"I can’t get any sense out of him."
Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess fell ill on June 30 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, four months after the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned by Novichok eight miles away in Salisbury.
A murder investigation is under way into the death of Sturgess.
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