Edinburgh professor calls for release of Lockerbie bomber
AN ARCHITECT of the trial which convicted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi of the Lockerbie bombing has accused two leading Scottish legal figures of treating the Libyan "shabbily" by delaying his appeal.
Robert Black, an Edinburgh University professor emeritus in law, said Elish Angiolini, the Lord Advocate, and Neil Davidson, the Advocate General, were responsible for the delays and called for the bomber's release after it emerged he had cancer.
Black was instrumental in setting up the Libyan's trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands eight years ago for the bombing of PanAm flight 103 in December 1988, which claimed 270 lives. Al-Megrahi has always maintained he is innocent.
The Scottish Government has insisted it cannot make any decision on releasing Al-Megrahi without an application from his solicitor, which has not been received.
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