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So daft to expect Gaddafi to retire to ‘Dun-dictating’

Sometimes in life, you just have to admit you got it wrong.

With hindsight it was a mistake to release Adelbasset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, on compassionate grounds in 2009.

The Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, did the right thing by the tenets of Scots law.