Scottish Government lose Lockerbie vote
The Scottish Government were defeated tonight in a Holyrood vote on the Lockerbie affair, opposition parties defeated the SNP in a series of votes on the decision by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi from prison on compassionate grounds, The Scotsman reports.
SNP ministers had asked the Parliament to endorse MacAskill’s decision as “consistent with the principles of Scottish justice”.
A series of four votes saw the Scottish Government defeated by 73 votes to 50, with one abstention each time.
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