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20-09-10, 12:01
Dr Jim Swire Lockerbie victim's father Dr Jim Swire met the bomber in Libya last week
The father of one of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing has been to Libya to visit the only man convicted of the atrocity.
Dr Jim Swire spent about an hour with Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi in hospital in Tripoli last week.
Dr Swire lost his 24-year-old daughter, Flora, in the 1988 bombing, but he believes Megrahi is innocent and wants a full inquiry.
He said the Libyan, who has prostate cancer, looked better than he expected.
Megrahi was released from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds last year.
Megrahi invited Dr Swire to meet him.
The two men last met in December 2008 when Dr Swire visited him in Greenock prison.
Commenting on the Libyan meeting he said: "I was very relieved to see him as well as he was.
"He is a very sick man but he can get out of bed and walk though not very far."
Megrahi was jailed for life for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 which exploded over the Scottish Borders.
He was given a fresh chance to clear his name after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) said there were six grounds where it believed a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.
Megrahi dropped his second appeal against his conviction shortly before he was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after he was given three months to live.
The father of one of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing has been to Libya to visit the only man convicted of the atrocity.
Dr Jim Swire spent about an hour with Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi in hospital in Tripoli last week.
Dr Swire lost his 24-year-old daughter, Flora, in the 1988 bombing, but he believes Megrahi is innocent and wants a full inquiry.
He said the Libyan, who has prostate cancer, looked better than he expected.
Megrahi was released from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds last year.
Megrahi invited Dr Swire to meet him.
The two men last met in December 2008 when Dr Swire visited him in Greenock prison.
Commenting on the Libyan meeting he said: "I was very relieved to see him as well as he was.
"He is a very sick man but he can get out of bed and walk though not very far."
Megrahi was jailed for life for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 which exploded over the Scottish Borders.
He was given a fresh chance to clear his name after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) said there were six grounds where it believed a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.
Megrahi dropped his second appeal against his conviction shortly before he was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after he was given three months to live.