Lockerbie Bomber Deserves the Same Compassion As Ronnie Biggs
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IT IS interesting to note the contrasting treatment of Ronnie Biggs and Abdelbaset Mohmed al Megrahi, both of whom are said to be terminally ill and have applied for release from prison on compassionate grounds ("Ronnie Biggs will spend his last days free - but in a hospital bed", The Herald, August 7).
Biggs has now been released by Jack Straw, the UK Justice Secretary, despite having served in total just one-third of his 30- year sentence after escaping from prison and enjoying 35 years of a comfortable life "on the run". Megrahi languishes in Greenock Prison, while Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Minister, and his legal advisers agonise over what to do about him and his justified appeal case against conviction.See the full content of this document
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Lockerbie Bomber Deserves the Same Compassion As Ronnie Biggs
Biggs was convicted for his involvement in the Great Train Robbery, in wh...
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