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Government to discuss Megrahi with Libyans

MINISTERS will discuss the fate of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing with their Libyan counterparts following the death of dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who was buried in a secret desert location yesterday.

Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said the legal position of former Libyan agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who gave up his right to appeal the conviction in order to return to Tripoli on compassionate grounds in 2009, appeared to have been settled, but it was one of several topics Britain planned to raise with the country’s new leadership.