Lockerbie victim
At the time of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi’s release the pious justice secretary Kenny MacAskill spoke of how “Mr al-Megrahi now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power”.
However, on his return to Libya, Megrahi did not live for the predicted three months but for 33 months.
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Hide AdSo this “higher power” decided to defer the death sentence on Megrahi, perhaps as a message to the Scottish Government to open an inquiry into the whole Megrahi affair, from his “sole” responsibility for the Lockerbie bomb to his early release.
There were 271 victims of the Lockerbie bomb: 270 people and then Scottish justice itself.
Neil Sinclair
Clarence Street