The Justice Committee has been investigating Justice Secretary’s Kenny MacAskill’s decision to grant compassionate release to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.

MSPs decided at a meeting they were Mr MacAskill’s decision has been adequately scrutinised and would not continue pursuing the issues that were raised.

A Scottish Parliament spokesman said:  "They will not take any further evidence. However they think it's right that they should report back to Parliament on this."

Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was released from Greenock prison in August.

Last week the committee heard from Mr MacAskill, who insisted the medical advice on the Libyan prognosis was “quite clear”.

He also revealed that the shellsuit Megrahi wore on his release from jail was chosen to disguise the protective body armour he was wearing.

Megrahi’s release angered many US families of the victims of the bombing.

However the committee inquiry is not considering whether the Justice Secretary was correct to conclude that compassionate release was justified.

And the circumstances surrounding the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie on December 21 1988 have not been investigated.

Megrahi is the only man to have been convicted for the atrocity, which killed 270 people. The committee will produce its draft report next month.