Verdict
The court convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi of murder on January 31, 2001. The second accused, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, was acquitted. Megrahi's appeal was also held at the court (the High Court of Justiciary is the highest court of appeal in the Scottish criminal justice system), and was rejected on March 14, 2002. The site was then decommissioned and returned to the Dutch government. Megrahi served his sentence at Greenock prison in Inverclyde.
From September 2003, Megrahi's conviction was under review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which reported its findings on June 28, 2007 and granted Megrahi leave for a second appeal against conviction.
Megrahi was released from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds by the Scottish justice minister (Kenny MacAskill) on August 20, 2009, where he was returned to Libya.
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