Colonel Gaddafi knew the Lockerbie bomber was innocent of mass murder but let him go to prison as part of a political “deal”, according to his closest adviser. Daad Sharab, 61, visited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi three times in prison in Scotland and was Gaddafi’s confidante for 22 years.
She took a letter from Barlinnie jail from Megrahi, which he wrote to the King of Jordan in a desperate bid to
be freed. In the end, he agreed to drop his appeal against his life sentence so he could be returned to Libya on health grounds in 2009.
Now, Sharab hopes al-Megrahi’s family may finally find “justice” after the arrest of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, 71, held last year on suspicion of building the bomb which brought down the New York-bound flight just days before Christmas in 1988. But she fears his trial, due to take place in the US, will again implicate Megrahi when she is convinced of his innocence.
