Medical evidence that helped Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Megrahi to be released was paid for by the Libyan Government, which encouraged three doctors to say he had three months to live.
The life expectancy of Megrahi was crucial because, under Scottish rules, prisoners can be freed on compassionate grounds only if they are considered to have that amount of time, or less, to live. The revelations have led critics to conclude that the British, Scottish and Libyan governments connived to free the Lockerbie bomber from his life sentence on compassionate grounds.
Megrahi is suffering from terminal prostate cancer. Two of the three doctors commissioned by the Libyans provided the required three-month estimates, while the third also indicated that the prisoner had a short time to live.
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