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Lockerbie bomber claims his innocence again | The Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Muhammad al-Megrahi, who was released by Scottish Government on compassionate ground that he was suffering from prostate cancer, has claimed that new evidence in the investigations of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing proves his innocence. Megrahi, who is currently in a hospital in Tripoli, has
claimed that the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) had found the
new evidence, which proves that he was not involved in the bombing. According
to reports, Megrahi has also put the documents on his website. "I continue to
protest my innocence - how could I fail to do so?" The Daily Express quoted Megrahi,
as saying in his website. "The commission said that the non-disclosure of these
documents and other material may have caused a miscarriage of justice," he added.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Scottish Government said that Justice Secretary
Kenny MacAskill made his decision over Megrahi "based on the due process of Scot
Law" and "supports the conviction". "The Scottish Government has already released
as much relevant information as possible, and has met with the SCCRC to look at
what documentation relating to the appeal could be released by them," the spokesman
said. Earlier, Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment in Scotland after being
convicted of 270 counts of murder for his part in the December 1988 bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. However, he was freed on compassionate
grounds by the Scottish government in August following reports that he had terminal
prostate cancer and had less than three months to live. |
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