Well Parliament have now released him, this is an outrage!!! Great justice for all the families that lost a relative/friend. Just when I thought SNP were making a difference.
I hate to disagree with you James, but I do.
Speaking as someone who was there (albeit very young at the time) and knowing some of the victims and their families, I have to say, on this side of the Atlantic at least, there have always been the greatest concerns about the soundness of Megrahi's conviction (which has alot to do with the "evidence" supplied by the US authorities, and the frankly odd events that occured in Lockerbie in the days following the bombing).
In that regard I'm glad that he's been released on compassionate grounds.
What is outrageous however is that the UK government saw fit to completely ignore the expressed wish of the Scottish Government vis-a-vis the question of prisoner transfer. They did this solely to chum up to Gaddafi despite them having absolutely no jurisdiction over the crime or the prisoner himself. It was like deciding wether someone could use your next door neighbour's driveway or not, without taking any notice of their wishes.
What is even more sad is, because of the extreme unlikeliness of Megrahi's guilt, and his dropping of the appeal (an appeal that would've probably seen him released anyway given what we know now) what really happened in Lockerbie, and during the subsequent investigation, is likely to remain a mystery.
There is a reason why the US are so keen not to have him released in my opinion, and it goes a long, long way beyond concern for the victims.
