Call for decision on Megrahi file

The Lord Advocate has urged the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to decide whether to publish the Lockerbie bomber’s grounds for appeal as soon as possible.

In a letter to the SCCRC, Frank Mulholland QC said “recent selective and misleading” publication in the media of extracts from the statement of reasons in the case of Abdelbaset al Megrahi had created a “highly unsatisfactory situation”.

The letter confirmed that the Crown Office would not prosecute any current member or employee of the SCCRC if the statement is formally published.

Megrahi is the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. He was freed on compassionate grounds in August 2009.