Fresh call for Lockerbie inquiry

Source: BBC News

A Tory MP has made a fresh call for a full public inquiry into the release of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

The chairman of Westminster's all-party group on Libya, Daniel Kawczynski, has written to the prime minister.

He urged David Cameron to hold Scottish ministers to account for their decision to allow Abdelbaset al-Megrahi home to Libya on compassionate grounds.

The Scottish government said an inquiry had already been held.

Megrahi was released by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill in August on the grounds he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer and was said to have as little as three months to live.

He had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

The 1988 bombing killed 270 people, mostly Americans.

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Also, in 11 days the US Congress will hold hearings regarding the release of Megrahi, and some senators asked BP officials to testify about the BP officials' lobbying the UK government to release Megrahi.

The Guardian also reported that William Hague, the UK foreign secretary, denies that BP had any role in freeing Megrahi.

What's actually needed is a new trial and that's the one thing that neither the US nor UK government want to happen. Everything else at present is all puff and nonsense.