BP boss to testify on role in release of Lockerbie bomber

BP CHIEF executive Tony Hayward has been asked to testify before a US Senate committee about the oil giant’s role in Scotland’s decision to release the Lockerbie aeroplane bomber, a Democratic senator said yesterday.

Senator Robert Menendez said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hoped to clarify whether BP had a hand in a decision last year by the Scottish government to release cancer-stricken Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds.

A source familiar with the matter said BP advisor Mark Allen also has been asked to appear before the committee.