tagged w/ Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
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The Lockerbie bomber could be free within a week, it was revealed yesterday.
Lawyers for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, who is terminally ill with cancer, are to apply for him to be bailed ahead of an appeal.
The move will be made on medical grounds as Megrahi, 56, is dying from prostate cancer.
He is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of killing 270, including 11 Lockerbie villagers.
The plea for bail will be heard next Thursday in Edinburgh where a decision will be made on whether to release him.
Megrahi lost an appeal in 2002, but got a fresh chance to clear his name in June last year.
New evidence to be raised at the appeal next year has convinced many experts that Megrahi may have been the victim of a catastrophic miscarriage of justice.
Libyan ministers are understood to be preparing to request that Megrahi be transferred back to Libya, although no formal agreement to transfer prisoners there from the UK exists. But it is understood a deal allowing the move is close to being finalized.
Dan Cohen, who lost his daughter Theo in the tragedy, said: 'I want to see Megrahi die in prison. If it is true he has cancer then there is some small manner of justice in that.' The Lockerbie bomber could be free within a week, it was revealed yesterday.... more
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