Lockerbie Bombing And The Release Of Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi

EDM number 575 in 2010-12, proposed by Robert Halfon on 20/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Health services and Prisons.

That this House deeply regrets that the Lockerbie bomber, a mass-murderer convicted by British courts, was let out of prison early on dubious health grounds, and with allegations of murky commercial interests; is concerned that in September 2007theright hon. Member for Blackburn, the then Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, assured the Scottish government that al-Megrahi would be excluded from the final prisoner transfer agreement; notes that in December 2007 the Scottish government was told by the Government that they had not been able to secure an exemption for al-Megrahi and had decided to go ahead with the agreement `in view of the overwhelming interests of the UK'; further notes that in January 2008Libya ratified a major oil deal with BP that had previously been stalled; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that such a distortion of the will of British courts is never permitted to occur again and that never again will a mass-murderer, convicted by British courts, be let out of prison and sent back to a dictatorship where he was welcomed as a hero and now lives in freedom.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.