Megrahi's welcome home in Libya angered many in the US and UK. Megrahi's hero welcom in Libra.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw says trade with Libya was considered and finally Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi is to be freed from a British jail on compassionate grounds to sweeten the 500milion pounds BP oil deal with Tripoli.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet Cis to be freed from a British jail on compassionate grounds
The house (L) of freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi in Tripoli
Scotland's Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill and with UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw allow Lockiebird prisoner to be released on humanitarian grounds. However , sources told that BP oil deal were part of the re leash deal. Jack Straw agreed admit the Lockiebird Oil deal link.
Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi suffers from terminal stage of Prostate cancer . The 57-year-old was serving life in Greenock prison for the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, which killed 270 people.
In January 2008, just weeks after the PTA(Prison Tranfer Agreement) was sealed, Libya ratified a £550m oil deal with BP.
A spokesman for Mr Straw said the minister had always made clear that wider considerations such as trade played a part in the negotiation of the PTA.
He added: "Jack's position has been on the record for some days.
"He has never denied that seeking an agreement with Libya over a Prisoner Transfer Agreement was connected to a wider process of normalising relations with Libya, including on trade, which is in the interests of us all.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted there was "no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double dealing, no deal on oil" over his release. However , Mr Straw said Mr Brown was not involved in the decision to press ahead with the PTA, saying: "I certainly didn't talk to the PM. There is no paper trail to suggest he was involved at all."
Documents released by the UK Government show Mr Straw had originally tried to ensure that Megrahi was exempted from any prisoner deal with Libya, but in December 2007 he changed his mind.
Deputy First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said: "All this discussion about the prisoner transfer agreement is academic because al-Megrahi wasn't released under the prisoner transfer agreement.
"Having said that, Jack Straw's comments do tend to support the view that the Scottish Government always took which was that the prisoner transfer agreement was tainted and compromised by trade discussions."
The Scottish National Party MSP added: "That's why I think we were right to both oppose that agreement, but also to reject the application of the Libyan Government to have al-Megrahi released under it."
Conservative foreign affairs spokesman David Lidington said: "It's very hard to square what Jack Straw says today with Gordon Brown's repeated denials of any kind of deal.
"That's why we need an independent inquiry to get to the truth."
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