Lockerbie bomber dies 3 years after release

Abdel Baset al Megrahi — a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing — died at home in Tripoli yesterday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack’s 270 victims.

He was 60.

Scottish authorities released al Megrahi on Aug 20, 2009 on compassionate grounds to let him return home to die after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. At the time, doctors predicted he had only three months to live.