Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi's death was a long time coming

His death was a long time coming. Few men facing their end have been asked as insistently as Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi why they did not die more quickly. 

 

For his family, forced repeatedly to answer the question to journalists ringing at the door of their villa in an upmarket Tripoli suburb, it seemed crude, and their response was hostile.

But that response was itself obscene to the many people, including relations of its victims, for whom Megrahi was guilty of the worst mass murder in British history.

It is possible to imagine politicians from Alex Salmond, whose Scottish Executive ordered his early release, to Tony Blair, whose good relations with Col Muammar Gaddafi lay murkily in the background, breathing a sigh of relief that Megrahi has gone. He had been given three months to live by the medical chief of Scottish prisons, Dr Andrew Fraser, in August 2009 – almost three long years ago now.

But for nearly everyone else, it merely leaves the big questions unanswered: did he really place the bomb on Pan Am 103 that blew it to pieces over Lockerbie on Dec 21 1988, killing 259 on board and a further 11 on the ground?

Was the suitcase his that allegedly contained a barometric trigger-bomb hidden in clothes bought from a Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci, whose evidence was vital to his conviction 12 years later?

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