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Lockerbie bomber freed on compassionate grounds

EDINBURGH, Aug 20

A former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, is to be freed on Thursday, the Scottish government said.

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