Lockerbie bomber ‘able to get out of bed and walk’

Campaigner visits Megrahi in hospital in Tripoli for ‘man-to-man’ meeting

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

The convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, freed 13 months ago by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer, is able to get out of bed and walk, despite being a very sick man.

The news comes courtesy of Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was one of the 270 people killed when a PanAm jetliner exploded over Lockerbie in 1988.

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is a London-based freelance journalist who has also worked in marketing. His interests include archaeology and opera.