Labour Attacked for Seeking to Have Megrahi Released

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David Cameron yesterday accused the former Labour government of ignoring the feelings of the Lockerbie families after an official review found it had sought to "do all it could" to secure the release of the only man convicted of the bombing.

The Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, who carried out the review of the paperwork, concluded the decision to release Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in August 2009 on compassionate grounds had been taken by ministers in the Scottish government alone.

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Labour Attacked for Seeking to Have Megrahi Released

However, he also found that British ministers had believed that Megrahi's release would be the "best outcome" as they feared...

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