MacAskill will not attend US hearing on bomber release
Scottish ministers and officials have turned down a request to attend a US Senate hearing next week over the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill and the Scottish Prison Service's medical chief Dr Andrew Fraser were invited.
Senators are investigating whether the release of al-Megrahi was linked to an oil deal in Libya involving BP.
Raymond Buchanan reports.
23 Jul 2010
- From the section UK