Apparently only one physician is actually willing to vouch for the claim that Megrahi only has three months to live. And that doctor reportedly has absolutely no expertise in the area.

Which is a problem, considering that the whole excuse the Scottish government gave for releasing the mass murderer was compassion in the final months of his life.

JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after it emerged that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had less than three months to live.

Labour and Conservative politicians have demanded the Scottish Government publish details of the doctor’s expertise and qualifications, amid suggestions he or she may not have been a prostate cancer expert.

The parties have also raised questions over whether the doctor was employed by the Libyan government or Megrahi’s legal team, which could have influenced the judgment.

Could have? Gee, ya think?

It turns out that other doctors consulting for the case weren’t even willing to testify that Megrahi is dying at all. In fact, one was mightily suspicious of the prognosis:

The medical report stated that the “less than three months to live” prognosis was: “In the opinion of Megrahi’s (the name or title of the individual was then blanked out] … who has dealt with him prior to, during and following the diagnosis.”

There was also a suggestion that Megrahi might not be as ill as had been claimed. The report said: “Clinicians who have assessed Mr Megrahi have commented on his relative lack of symptoms when considering the severity and stage of underlying disease.”

And suggestions that the doctor who gave the prognosis may have been employed by the Libyan government emerged in the report’s notes. It said that a professor from Libya had been involved in Megrahi’s care and the medical officer who wrote the report had been “working with clinicians from Libya over the past ten months”.

If it turns out that all of this is true and Megrahi isn’t dying of the illness at all, there are two major possibilities: A) The government of Scotland was hoodwinked by the Libyan authorities with a doctor on the dime of the Libyan government; or B) His dying of an illness was a cover story constructed by both Scotland and Libya as an excuse for releasing him in a trade deal.

The latter is the most troubling, as it would involve one of our supposed allies trading a man who killed hundreds of people in order to make a profit. In fact, Ghadaffi hinted at there being an oil deal in the release — a claim his son later flat-out made. It’s sickening.