Gaddafi warned UK over plane bomber

The Gaddafi regime warned British officials that there would be “dire consequences” for relations between the UK and Libya if Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died in his Scottish jail cell, it has emerged.

The extent of lobbying by the Libyan government leading up to Megrahi’s release in August 2009 is laid bare in documents discovered by reporters in the abandoned British embassy building in Tripoli.