Should This Man, Jailed for Life for the Lockerbie Bombing, Be Freed to Die with His Family?

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FROM his prison cell in HMP Greenock, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al- Megrahi used to try to follow the legal arguments that he hoped would clear him of the worst terrorist outrage ever committed on UK territory.

Now, however, the prostate cancer that is gradually killing the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has become so painful that he can no longer concentrate on the complex case.

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Should This Man, Jailed for Life for the Lockerbie Bombing, Be Freed to Die with His Family?

The CCTV link that connects his cell with the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh lies unused as he languishes on his bed resting between hospital appointments.

The pain also distracts him from the satellite television that keeps him in touch with the political developments that will determine what remains of his future.

It is perhaps a strange paradox that while the Lockerbie bomber himself has been forced to avert his eyes from his own fate, the rest of the world is once again focusing on the man convicted of the murder of 270 people when Pa...

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