GourockBlade

It just gets worse and worse http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8431483.stm

First-footing as it's called is when people usually brings several gifts, including perhaps a coin, bread, salt, coal, or a drink (usually whisky), which respectively represent financial prosperity, food, flavour, warmth, and good cheer. In Scotland, first-footing has traditionally been more elaborate than in England, and involving subsequent entertainment.

Nonsense (I'm from the west coast), I would put my house on it that you would never be refused an English bank note in Scotland.

English bank notes are used all over Scotland and no one will ever think twice about accepting them, even in England I don't think spending Scottish notes poses the same problems it once did, I've never had a problem spending Scottish notes in Sheffield, not even in the Sheffield Utd ticket office even though they have a sign saying they don't accept them.

You or no one else including doctors can help him, like someone has mentioned before, he has to want to do it himself, until then you are ******* against the wind I'm afraid.

Liberty the law does not state prisoners have to released on compassionate grounds, of the last 30 prisoners in Scottish jails to apply for compassionate release on medical grounds 7 have been refused, God only knows what these guys were in for.

The 3 Scottish Judges convicted the man on the evidence they had been given (I know information was withheld but that was not the fault of the trial judges), rightly or wrongly we can only argue, we cannot be releasing convicted murders because public opinion says they are innocent, they must follow the judicial process, thats all I'm saying. I agree the whole thing stinks and I believe the reason he was released was a further cover up of information the UK and US governments hope we the public never find out about.

and the CIA and MI6 breath a sigh of relief....

I'm sure Megrahi dropped his 1st appeal in 2006 for what ever reason and the 2nd appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal was also abandoned in 2009 so they could go down the road of having him released him on compassionate grounds, I also didn't say I thought he was fully innocent but I'm also not convinced he was guilty of the charges he stood trial for but again at the end of the day he was convicted and the only way he should have been released was after his sentence was quashed.

Donkey like Ive said before I'm not convinced he was guilty of what he was convicted of but that doesn't mean I'm happy he has been released, we have a justice system in place and regardless of who you are you should have to go through the justice system, people have compared his case with Myra Hindley and rightly so, both convictions were for crimes beyond compasion. The only way Magrahi should have been released was either via the appeals court or after a re-trial but do you think the UK or the US governments would have wanted that? After all they apparently gave the Scottish judges selective information during the trial and if/when the full truth comes out it will be interesting viewing.

haha, did your ex-wife run off with a Jock?

I should have added if the USA people and government are that upset with the decision then they should sever all ties with Libya. Oops, I forgot, there's Libya's oil.............

There is no way that there isn't a quid pro quo aspect of this - and anyone who thinks the Americans are REALLY and HONESTLY upset about letting him go are more naive than the people they purport to represent. This whole deal was done at the behest of the American & the UK governments, with the Scottish legal system being chosen as the appropriate fall guy for them to blame when they do what as instructed. I suppose it was a no win situation for the Scottish government who did exactly as the American and UK governments wanted - despite the American claims to the contrary. We (the Scots) were no more than pawns in a much bigger game - and the result would have been the same whether it was Labour, SNP or whoever in charge. THAT is to our shame, but nothing else is. I don't suppose this was a fight we were ever going to win, but I'm still disgusted in my government for not standing up for justice. The only losers yesterday were the Scottish Justice System, Natural Justice and the victims of the bombing. The winners were the US, Libyan and UK governments and their government agencies. But hey, thats politics and the world I'm sorry to say we live in.

and many of them where convicted of an act of terrorism that killed 270 people?

2 weeks for every life lost, I'm Scottish and I'm sickened by this. Scotland should hold it's head in shame.