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Britain 'against Lockerbie bomber dying in jail'
AFP - Wednesday, September 2
LONDON (AFP) - - Britain did not want the Lockerbie bomber to die in prison, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday, while insisting London did not pressure the Scottish government over the issue.
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"We did not want him to die in prison .. we weren't seeking his death in prison," he told BBC radio, while again denying there was a deal with Libya to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi.
"The allegation that is being made ... is that somehow we pressured the Scottish government into making a decision one way or another," he said, insisting: "There was no pressure from the British government on the Scots."
His admission that Britain did not want the former Libyan agent to die behind bars comes nearly two weeks after his release from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds, because he is dying of prostate cancer.
The comments are likely to increase pressure on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose government has insisted that the decision to release Megrahi was one solely taken by the semi-autonomous Scottish government.
On Tuesday documents were released by the British and Scottish governments about the case, which London hoped would counter charges that Megrahi was released as part of a deal to facilitate a huge oil and gas deal with oil-rich Libya.
Miliband insisted there was no deal with Tripoli, noting that Brown made this clear in a meeting with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in July this year.
"He was absolutely clear in his meeting with Colonel Kadhafi that he could not instruct, and he could not give comfort about the Megrahi (case) .. there was no way for us to control Megrahi's fate," said the foreign minister.
"At no stage were we willing to say that we could offer the kind of deal that is being alleged, because it was not in our gift to release Megrahi," he added.
Megrahi, the only person to be convicted of the murder of 270 people in the bombing of a Pan Am jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, served eight years of a life sentence before being released on August 20.
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Channel Four news website TV grab shows Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi in his hospital bed in Tripoli on August 30. Britain did not want the Lockerbie bomber to die in prison, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday, while insisting London did not pressure the Scottish government over the issue.
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