The Lockerbie Case: Megrahi taken to hospital

Monday 3 August 2009

Megrahi taken to hospital

A usually reliable source informs me that Abdelbaset Megrahi was rushed from HMP Greenock to Inverclyde Royal Hospital at 08.00 this morning.

The BBC News website now has a report [timed 11.16] about the hospital visit. This report states that the visit was a planned one. It reads in part:

'The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has returned to Greenock Prison after a planned visit to hospital.

'It is understood Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi had an X-ray during a short stay of less than an hour at the Inverclyde Royal Hospital. (...)

'[In connection with the prisoner transfer and compassionate release applications] Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill is to visit Megrahi in his cell on Wednesday.'

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