However, I most certainly support her in the case of Abdelbasset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi who was found guilty of single-handedly bringing down Pan Am flight 103, killing a total of 270 people.

If Ms Grahame is right and a crucial piece of evidence used to convict Al Megrahi was removed from Scottish jurisdiction without proper documentation and taken for examination by FBI agents overseas, maybe, just maybe, the evidence became contaminated by investigators outside Scottish jurisdiction.

Questions have been raised about this particular evidence which was not disclosed to defence lawyers at the time of the trial. The prosecution’s case seems to have been undermined. What are the Scottish legal authorities saying – Al Megrahi would have to drop his quite justifiable appeal before his transfer back to Libya?

Yes, the bombing of flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 was mass murder of almost unprecedented proportions.

However, questions have and are being raised about the prosecution of this man, now serving a 27-year sentence in prison, even though he has prostate cancer.

This case has rumbled on and on. Surely Lord Fraser (Scotland’s senior law officer at the time) should come clean and the senior FBI officer be cited to appear in court. There have been claims that evidence was contaminated by the American authorities, lost even.

Without the missing evidence there should not have been a trial. An 84-day trial under Scottish law at Camp Zeist in Holland at a total cost to the taxpayer of how much exactly?

Let all evidence be heard. It seems there is evidence that the authorities have the wrong man.

At least send him home while the legal profession unscrews itself. Less cost than holding Al Megrahi in Greenock Prison and a dying man could be visited by his family.

JAMIE BATTEN

Chay Blyth Place

Hawick