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Cameron: Lockerbie decision is 'wrong'

Conservative leader David Cameron has criticised the release from jail of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.

The move to free Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was decided by the Scottish Government.

Mr Cameron said it was ''a very bad decision'' to release a convicted murderer on compassionate grounds.

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