The “objective” medical advice used to justify the release of the Lockerbie bomber was actually paid for by Libya, London's Sunday Telegraph has reported.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, 57, was released from a Scottish jail last month on compassionate grounds when a team of doctors advised the Scottish government he had only three months to live. But the Sunday Telegraph revealed that the doctors delivering the opinion were paid for by the Libyan government.
Al-Megrahi, was convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan American jet that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain has been in an uproar over the release which officials deny was related to an oil deal.