Breaking: Lockerbie Bomber has died

*update: 5.35pm. Megrahi’s lawyers are denying reports that he has died.

A few weeks after his controversial release from a scottish prison, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is dead. He was suffering from terminal cancer.

Sky’s political editor Adam Boulton said: “Official sources in Westminster are seeking to confirm reports that the Lockerbie bomber may have died.

“Al-Megrahi was released controversially in August from Scottish prison by SNP Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, on compassionate grounds.

“At the time, it was claimed he had less than three months to live, because of prostate cancer.”

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