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Convicted Lockerbie bomber has cancer
A lawyer for the man convicted of the Lockerbie airline bombing says his client has advanced cancer.
- Agencies
- Published: 18:12 October 21, 2008
London: A lawyer for the man convicted of the Lockerbie airline bombing says his client has advanced cancer.
Lawyer Tony Kelly said on Tuesday that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month, and the disease has spread.
The former Libyan intelligence agent is serving a life sentence in a prison in Scotland for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, which killed 270 people.
Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were prosecuted at the Hague in 2001 for carrying out the bombing. Fhimah was acquitted.
Al-Megrahi has been trying to appeal his conviction.
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