Posted on 11/14/2008 1:48:20 PM PST by the scotsman
'The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will remain in jail while his appeal continues, a court has ruled.
Lawyers for Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who has advanced prostate cancer, had asked the Appeal Court in Edinburgh to grant him interim liberation.
The Libyan is appealing against his conviction for the murder of 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in 1988.
A full hearing is likely to take place in the middle of next year.
The judgement on the bail application was delivered on Friday by the Lord Justice General Lord Hamilton, along with Lord Kingarth and Lord Wheatley.
Lord Hamilton said the "critical question" was whether the applicant's health condition was such that the court should allow him bail on compassionate grounds. "On balance the court is not persuaded, on the information before it, that it should," he said.
"While the disease from which the appellant suffers is incurable and may cause his death, he is not at present suffering material pain or disability.
"The full services of the National Health Service are available to him, notwithstanding he is in custody."
He added that there appeared to be no immediate prospect of serious deterioration in his condition.'
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I hope he never gets pain medication.
If he can bring the 270 vitims back to life then he should be freed.
I had a classmate die because of this piece of sh*t.
I hope he rots in hell.
He should consider himself lucky he’s in jail and receiving medical treatment, not to mention three meals a day and all the other perks.
What he deserved was to be taken up in a plane and dropped over the ocean from 35,000 feet.
Maybe if he was flown back to Libya and then fell out at 50,000 - I’d volunteer to fly him ....
He’s rehabilitated. Let him teach in Chicago.
Within hours of the indictment of the two men who were charged with this horrible crime, another airliner went down - EgyptAir 990.
They are connected.
Despite then-President Clinton’s immediate denial that the Egyptian airplane’s crash was related to terrorsism, he knew it was true and that his careless promise through Mubarak to gain the handover of the suspects into custody for the international court to deal with them was not kept.
There’s more, but I have to go — I’ll be back.
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