Support for doctor who said al-Megrahi was close to death

SCOTTISH authorities have defended the doctor who said Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi had three months to live, after US senators asked them to release the Libyan’s medical records.

The senators are probing the circumstances surrounding the release in August last year of al-Megrahi, convicted of the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Al-Megrahi is still alive a year after Scottish authorities freed him on compassionate grounds. A medical report compiled by Andrew Fraser, the Scottish Prison Service’s director of health and care, said he had terminal prostate cancer and could die in three months.