Lockerbie bomber wrote letter from Barlinnie claiming Nelson Mandela supported his release
dailyrecord.co.ukThe Lockerbie bomber wrote an impassioned plea for help while locked up in one of Britain’s toughest jails - and blamed his alleged accomplice for the atrocity.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi’s adviser Daad Sharab, 61, visited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi three times in Scotland. She took a letter from Megrahi which he wrote to the King of Jordan in Barlinnie jail in a desperate bid to be freed.
Megrahi told how Nelson Mandela had visited him and supported his campaign for release. He claimed Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, the man cleared of the bombing when he faced trial alongside Megrahi in 2001, “put the suitcase on the flight”.
Megrahi wrote: “I have to write because of the great suffering condemned to imprisonment for false accusation. I am an Arabic Libyan unfairly convicted in the case of what is called Lockerbie.
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