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Jail Megrahi, says Clegg

MORE pressure was piled on Alex Salmond last night after Nick Clegg made clear that he would like to see the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing back behind bars.

Just 24 hours after William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, called on the First Minister to review urgently the status of Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Deputy Prime Minister added his voice to the growing chorus here and abroad for the former Libyan spy chief to be reincarcerated.