Convicted Lockerbie bomber has cancer

Last updated: October 21, 2008 | 19:12

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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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