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Opinion: Releasing Megrahi was the right thing to do

By Malcolm Wood | Thu 24th May 2012 - 3:56 pm

The release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the Lockerbie Bombing in which 270 people died, on compassionate grounds is almost always described in the media as a controversial decision but I think it was the right one.

I accept the cynical case that his release was convenient to the Scottish government in many ways: it prevented his “martyrdom” in a Scottish prison; it may have helped the lucrative business of trading with Libya; it was helpful to the SNP government’s wider aims to
remind everyone about ways in which Scottish and English law (and, by extension, Scotland and England) …