Quote Originally Posted by js207 View Post
I felt from the outset that Megrahi should have faced the death penalty rather than life in prison; waiving the death penalty and making it a Scottish court rather than American was, perhaps, a necessary compromise - but him leaving jail alive should never have been an option.
The thing is js most people in the UK thought he was stitched up, because as i said before in an earlier post, a lot of things the American inteligence stated was proved wrong at a later date. The American inteligence if they did their homework and investigated the case properly they might have got the Killer that is still out there somewhere, and i might add the UK inteligence. As cases prove since then you dont have to be from the Middle East to make and plant a bomb. He could be native American or British living next door, but in the end this was not carried out by one person, i doubt if the others are dying of cancer.

One other thing i would like to mention, my father died of prostrate cancer, and it is one of the most painfull of deaths, he was given two years and only lasted three months, it is a very fickel form of cancer and is hard to diagnose a time limit. Secondly the plane might have been American but it was over UK soverign area, when the Americans let us try our criminals that kill over in the states we will no doubt go Quid-pro-Quo. I would also like to point out that in no way am i siding with a bommer, i always look at both sides of the arguement.

Regards IAN 2411{lillirose}