Aberdeen's News Headlines
Lockerbie bomber FREED
The Lockerbie bomber has been freed on compassionate grounds.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, was serving a life sentence for murdering 270 people when a Pan Am plane was brought down over the town in 1988.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said Megrahi would now be released early from prison because of his worsening medical condition.
He said Megrahi ``now faces justice from a higher power ... he is going to die''.
He had earlier rejected a separate application by Megrahi to serve the rest of his sentence in Libya.
Megrahi left Greenock prison shortly after 2.00pm - his plane left Glasgow airport at 3.27pm.
