US Lockerbie bomber investigation

[MMI]

What "answers" will come from his death?

I don't recall any guarantees being given that Megrahi would be dead within 3 months of his release, or in any other period of time. What is certain, as Alex Salmond pointed out, is that he will die of cancer some time. Let those whom it will satisfy take satisfaction from that.

[IAN 2411]

What "answers" will come from his death?

I'll second that, because all the answers were lost when the investigation was bodged.

Be well IAN 2411

[js207]

What "answers" will come from his death?

I don't recall any guarantees being given that Megrahi would be dead within 3 months of his release, or in any other period of time. What is certain, as Alex Salmond pointed out, is that he will die of cancer some time. Let those whom it will satisfy take satisfaction from that.

Rather a vacuous statement from Salmond there - we will all die eventually, and being a 59 year old man now living in a war zone, another cause of death would hardly be a shock. The period of time had considerable legal importance, though: the law which allowed his release permits "the release from prison of anyone deemed by competent medical authority to have three months or less to live". At the very least, out-living by a factor of eight suggests that prognosis was unduly pessimistic; I seem to recall hearing at the time that those engineering the release had, to be charitable, "cherry-picked" the reports to support the release.