Tag: lifers must be told exactly how long they must serve before they can apply for parole.  In the latest proceedings

 

The High Court of Justiciary, sitting in Glasgow on 24 November 2003, decided that the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, should serve a sentence of 27 years, backdated to 1999 when he was first taken into custody.  At the trial in 2001 Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison, with a recommendation that he serve at least 20 years in view of the horrendous nature of this crime”.  However