The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will find out tomorrow if he is to be freed from jail.

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will find out tomorrow if he is to be freed from jail.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has applied for interim liberation pending the outcome of an appeal.

Yesterday, it was disclosed that judges will announce tomorrow whether his application has been successful.

Last month it emerged that the former Libyan intelligence agent, 56, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and the disease had spread to other parts of his body.

At a hearing last Thursday, three appeal judges in Edinburgh were told an "unusually compelling case" existed for releasing Megrahi on bail pending his appeal.

The court heard he was terminally ill and should be released on compassionate grounds.

Last month, he was taken from his prison cell in HMP Greenock under tight security to undergo tests at Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock.

Megrahi's defence team at the Court of Criminal Appeal said he did not have long to live and should be released in order to reside with his family in Scotland while receiving medical treatment.

But prosecutors argued the gravity and extraordinary circumstances of the offence meant he should remain in jail at HMP Greenock.

Lord Hamilton, the Lord President, will deliver the judgment with Lord Kingarth and Lord Wheatley in Edinburgh tomorrow morning.

Megrahi is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, which caused the deaths of 270 people.

He lost his original appeal in 2002, but was given a fresh chance to clear his name in June last year when the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission referred his case back to appeal judges for a second time. His appeal is due to be heard next year.