It was announced more than two weeks ago that Kenny MacAskill, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, was to meet Abdelbaset Megrahi in the context of the Libyan Government's application for his repatriation under the Libya-UK prisoner transfer agreement. Presumably such a meeting would also be relevant to the application for compassionate release that has also now been lodged.
No such meeting has as yet taken place. The 90 day period within which, according to the prisoner transfer agreement, a decision should, if practicable, be reached, expires on 3 August. The Scottish Government did, however, make it clear when the PTA application was received that it might not be possible for a decision to be arrived at within this time scale.
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