Just Two Weeks for Every Life ; the Lockerbie Bomber, Britain's Biggest Mass Murderer, Gets a Welcome Fit for a Hero On His Return to Libya. But has the Decision to Release Him Early Destroyed Forever Any Hope of Justice? [Scot Region]

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THE Lockerbie bomber flew home to Libya yesterday amid a storm of international outrage after being freed on 'compassionate' grounds.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was released after less than seven-and-a-half years of his life sentence - only two weeks in jail for each victim of Britain's worst act of mass murder.

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Just Two Weeks for Every Life ; the Lockerbie Bomber, Britain's Biggest Mass Murderer, Gets a Welcome Fit for a Hero On His Return to Libya. But has the Decision to Release Him Early Destroyed Forever Any Hope of Justice? [Scot Region]

Last night Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, expressed 'his sincere sympathy for the unimaginable loss' the victims' families had suffered.

But his apparent expression of remorse was then undermined when he spoke of his own 'horrible ordeal'.

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said he had decided to show 'mercy' to the terrorist, who could die within the next three months, a requirement for compassionate release.

He said Megrahi 'now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power'.

But there were immediate doubts over the severi...

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