Salmond justifies response to Lockerbie question

Alex Salmond claimed yesterday that he had been wholly consistent when he said that the Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton would not have been released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds in the way Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi was last year.

The First Minister was responding to accusations at First Minister’s Questions, at Holyrood, that his position on the two mass murderers was “irreconcilable and contradictory”. more...