His insistence came as Downing Street made clear that Gordon Brown had not endorsed the decision by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to release the Libyan on compassionate grounds.
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America had a ‘clear understanding’ that Megrahi would stay in Scotland
America had the “clear political and diplomatic understanding” that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi would serve his full sentence in a Scottish jail, Sir Christopher Meyer, the UK ambassador to Washington at the time of the Lockerbie trial negotiations, claimed yesterday.
