The convicted Lockerbie bomber has been flown home to Libya after being freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988. The decision to release Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was made by the Scottish Government.
US president Barack Obama said the decision was “a mistake” and some US victims’ families reacted angrily. Some 189 Americans were among those who died in the explosion…
The government said it had consulted widely before Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill made his decision on applications for Megrahi’s compassionate release or his transfer to a Libyan jail. He told a media conference on Thursday that he had rejected the application for a prisoner transfer. However, after taking medical advice it was expected that three months was a “reasonable estimate” of the time Megrahi had left to live.
He ruled out the option of the Libyan being allowed to live in Scotland on security grounds.
- BBC News
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Ah priceless DEM!
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I live in Scotland. I’m allowed!
Seconding Adrien. Still giggling at that last shot.
So very, very Scots.
It’s our religion: Bank of Scotland.
I mean seriously we’re the only people in the world that Jews tell miser jokes about. And where do sporrans go?
I thought that in Scotland sporrans were in perpetual hibernation, lest they be forced to open.
I don’t know where they go but I do know they drink milk.
Adrien@5: “And where do sporrans go?”
Depends if you’ve learnt how to walk with them on, so they go from side to side, rather than straight back in the middle.
(Mine’s be hiding in the wardrobe for many a year)