re: #522 Walter L. Newton

The Times of London confirms…

“The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.”

Read - OIL
Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’

Its even worse than that - see this:

‘The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahi’s release.’
(My emphasis)

So now we know that the whole spiel about this being a ‘purely Scottish decision’ was nothing bu NuLab spin to cover their dirty tracks.