Letter: Megrahi truth

KENNY MacAskill says he didn’t urge the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to drop his appeal to smooth the way for his compassionate release, while Abdelbaset al-Megrahi suggests otherwise (your report, 1 March). They can’t both be right.

By The Newsroom

Published 2nd Mar 2012, 00:00 BST

Bearing in mind that one of them is a dying man wrongly convicted of mass murder and the other is a respected Scottish politician and upstanding member of the legal profession which secured his conviction, I know who I believe!

John Eoin Douglas

Spey Terrace

Edinburgh