LONDON — The decision by Scottish authorities to release the only person convicted of the deadly bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was “wrong and misguided,” but there is no evidence to suggest that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was returned to Libya in return for lucrative oil deals, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in letter to U.S. officials.
Hague’s letter to Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was released by the Foreign Office on Saturday.
Hague said that he, like British Prime Minister David Cameron, disagreed with the release of al-Megrahi but that the decision was for Scotland alone and that he has seen nothing that shows the oil company BP interfered in the process.
The correspondence comes ahead of a hearing next week in Washington into the circumstances surrounding the release of al-Megrahi, convicted in 2001 of the attack on the jetliner in the skies above the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland. The Associated Press
