Terminally ill Lockerbie bomber returns to Libya
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who has less than three months to live with terminal prostate cancer, was being returned to Libya on compassionate grounds, a decision strongly criticised by the United States, which had campaigned to keep him in prison.
“He is a dying man, he is terminally ill,” Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill told a news conference. “My decision is that he returns home to die.
