Dear Spurtle
Kenny MacAskill says that he didn't urge the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to drop his appeal in order to smooth the way for his compassionate release, whilst Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi says that he did. They can't both be telling the truth.
Bearing in mind that one of them is a dying man wrongly convicted of mass murder and the other is a respected Scottish politician and upstanding member of the legal profession which secured his conviction, I know who I believe!
Yours sincerely
John Eoin Douglas
(Spey Terrace)