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Terminally ill killer to be released early from sentence

A life prisoner is to be freed on compassionate grounds just weeks after the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was released for the same reason.

The prisoner is understood to be Jason Sutherland, who is serving a life sentence at HMP Greenock for murder, and is due to be released shortly because he is terminally ill.