Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7862492)

I hear what you are saying K, but, is it right for a prisoner to be released on compassionate grounds if he has massacred so many people? - i'm not specifically relating to Megrani btw.

Originally Posted by slipshot (Post 7862497)

kporte

you seem very sure he did not do it and although there are people who believe he did not, there are probably many more who believe he did - and only a few who know as close to the truth as they can get.

The fact he has been welcomed back to Libya today with open arms, with singing of songs and the waving of Scottish flags shows their complete lack of care and disrespect to the Scottish people. There is the fact that he undoubtedly had very strong ties to the company that made that specific detonator that caused the bomb, and many other bits of evidence seem to indicate he was either a very very unlucky person or he's not as innocent as is made out. He may not have planted the bomb, but he was pretty certain to be involved...

I'm also of the belief there was more than one person involved at all levels.

Bottom line is he was found guilty and in my book deserves to die in prison - this whole compassionate grounds and your comment about us not being animals is, I believe, nonsense.

Ignoring this situation, no-one who is convicted of life imprisonment should be allowed out on compassionate grounds. The have none and have never exercised any so why should we give it to them? Anyone who has been tried and found guilty should not be allowed out compassionate grounds in my book. Their guilt or not is a totally separate matter...

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7862559)

I would say no. Hindley was refused for example. But that is the point. You have to ask yourself why he has been released and why he dropped his appeal. Simple. He would have won his appeal.

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7862619)

Yes, agreed. :)

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7862568)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...y-verdict.html

Originally Posted by slipshot (Post 7862637)

Learn something new every day. Thanks, and it opened my eyes a bit more, but again, it's so hard without being involved to truly know what happened or what could be the case.

But thanks. Very interesting...

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7862646)

It is such an emotive issue it is very hard to be objective or question

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7859983)

Like the Birmingham 6 and the Guilford 4 you mean?

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 7863325)

If memory serves me correctly they were released because of the convictions being unsafe? Which is a bit different to being found innocent or not guilty... Just that the evidence was in doubt.... It was interesting that the police were pursuing no new/further enquires. Police speak I'm told for we had the buggers, but for smart lawyers they got away.....People need to read the articles, not the headlines.

Originally Posted by MacScot (Post 7859359)

Scots justice: compassionate release of terminally ill long-term prisoners (e.g., Al Magrahi)

English justice: compassionate release of terminally ill long-term prisoners (e.g., Ronnie Biggs).

American justice - no compassionate release of long-term prisoners - let them rot and die in jail = vengeance !

Originally Posted by jasonlec (Post 7863400)

Biggs, how many dead, how many years served.

magrahi, how many dead, how many years served.

Both found GUILTY of a crime and sentenced.