Lockerbie bomber released

sir_drinks_alot · 13-08-2009, 00:08

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi the man who was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to be released on compassionate grounds next week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8198603.stm

Sirius · 13-08-2009, 06:53

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Originally Posted by sir_drinks_alot

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi the man who was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to be released on compassionate grounds next week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8198603.stm

what do you expect. They are already talking of releasing the killers of baby Peter so why not this animal as well.

Dai · 13-08-2009, 10:08

Fine by me. By all means release him but from a 747 flying at the same altitude as the Lockerbie plane when his bomb detonated.

chris9991 · 13-08-2009, 10:46

According to many articles in Private Eye the evidence that he was the bomber is tenuous at best. I believe that an appeal was pending, by releasing the prisoner the government hope to avoid it proceeding and hope to avoid any more embarrassing revelations.

13-08-2009, 10:50

Yeah this stinks to me. I think this guy was never guilty and the government are kacking bricks that the truth may come out. I would not really be surprised if he isnt even dying

Mr Angry · 13-08-2009, 15:56

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Originally Posted by zing

Yeah this stinks to me. I think this guy was never guilty and the government are kacking bricks that the truth may come out. I would not really be surprised if he isnt even dying

There is something quite sketchy about this whole sorry affair.

soicky · 13-08-2009, 16:17

Heard one guest on bbc news saying your letting ronnie biggs out so why not this guy.

**Chris** · 13-08-2009, 16:25

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Originally Posted by Mr Angry

There is something quite sketchy about this whole sorry affair.

Very, very smelly, I'd say.

Peter_ · 13-08-2009, 19:06

He was convicted so let him rot in our jail and we should feel the same compassion towards him as his countrymen feel towards us.

This is a slap in the face for the families of the victims.

bonzoe · 13-08-2009, 20:35

Strange isn't it. A UK spokesman for the victims families said there were too many unanswered questions at the trial and that they believed he was NOT guilty.

Mr Angry · 13-08-2009, 20:37

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Originally Posted by Moldova

He was convicted so let him rot in our jail and we should feel the same compassion towards him as his countrymen feel towards us.

This is a slap in the face for the families of the victims.

I think you'll find that leaving people to rot in jail in circumstances where there are highly questionable elements of their convictions is a bad idea - see: Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, The Bridgwater Four, The M25 Three, Sally Clark, Barry George etc etc etc for further info.

In relation to this particular case last October the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission identified six grounds where it believed a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is, at least, entitled to have those grounds addressed.

Having someone jailed who is subsequently found to have been innocent of a crime is, in many ways - not least psychologically, more of a slap in the face to the victims and their families.

jamiefrost · 14-08-2009, 11:34

His release has nothing to do with the circumstances of his conviction He is being released due to ill health exactly the same reason Ronnie Biggs was released. ( Who now seems to of made a rather miraculous recover)

Don't think either of them should be released, if his conviction is found to be suspect, then that's a different story.

JJ

tweetypie/8 · 14-08-2009, 19:51

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Originally Posted by Sirius

what do you expect. They are already talking of releasing the killers of baby Peter so why not this animal as well.

fair play !! if its not to much to ask,this guy is being set up.

TheDaddy · 15-08-2009, 04:56

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Originally Posted by chris9991

According to many articles in Private Eye the evidence that he was the bomber is tenuous at best. I believe that an appeal was pending, by releasing the prisoner the government hope to avoid it proceeding and hope to avoid any more embarrassing revelations.

He has cancelled that appeal now, so it looks like his release really is imminent then, personally I'd have liked him to have appealed and cleared his name if, as many suspect, he is innocent but then it isn't me on borrowed time with terminal cancer.

I heard an English victims relative saying 'he is innocent let him out' and an American relative saying 'keep him in, he'll be treated as a hero', well if he is innocent I hope he is, his sacrifice finally got the sanctions lifted and made conditions in Lybia a lot better for its citizens, that's a big if of course, let's just hope that we know what we are doing and not letting a guilty mass murderer out, not exactly got much confidence in our ptb at the moment though.

frogstamper · 15-08-2009, 05:48

I seem to remember Tony Blair saying that now relations with Libya and Gaddafi have normalised, one of the first things on the agenda would be extraditing the murderer of WPC Evonne Fletcher, what about her families compassionate rights?