A cancer specialist has called for an "urgent" decision on the future of the Lockerbie bomber before his condition worsens further.
Professor Karol Sikora, who visited Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in prison, said the Libyan had an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer which was no longer responding to treatment.
"We believe he has only a very short period of time to live," said Prof Sikora, who assessed Megrahi last month.
[A report from the Press Association news agency.
The Scotsman has just published a report on its website. It reads in part:]
A cancer specialist called today for an "urgent" decision on the future of the Lockerbie bomber before his condition worsens further.
Professor Karol Sikora, who visited Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in prison, said the Libyan had an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer which was no longer responding to treatment.
"We believe he has only a very short period of time to live," said Prof Sikora, who assessed Megrahi last month. (...)
Prof Sikora, medical director of the independent cancer care network CancerPartnersUK, said he was asked by the Libyan government to provide an independent medical assessment of Megrahi.
He visited him on July 28 with Professor Ibrahim Sherif from the Tripoli medical centre, Libya and Dr Abdulrahman Swessi, Libya's consul general in Scotland.
"We were shown great courtesy by the prison staff and especially the prison doctor with whom we discussed medical details and reviewed records," he said.
"Despite rumours in the media to the contrary, Mr Al Megrahi has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread widely.
"Although he initially responded to treatment, this is no longer working. We believe he has only a very short period of time to live."
The professor went on: "We found him to be a highly intelligent, well-educated and deeply religious person who wishes to spend his last few weeks with his wife and five children.
"We believe an urgent decision on his future is needed before any further medical deterioration takes place."
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