Confused editorial about al-Megrahi in today's Independent

There is a confused editorial about al-Megrahi in today's Independent.

Perhaps I am cynical, but is it really possible to diagnose al-Megrahi's medical condition on the basis of television pictures filmed some distance from his bed and viewed one and a half thousand miles away?  Why doesn't Alex Salmond send a doctor out there, since the man is under the jurisdiction of Scottish law?  Not that I particularly care about Megrahi, but I do care about being fobbed off with a very feeble excuse.

Also are we now saying that mass murderers should be let off when they become old and ill?  Where does that leave the mass murderers who committed crimes during the Second World War - are they to be let off?  And the mass murderers of Bosnis, Rwanda, Kordofan etc - are they all going to be let off?

Also in the confused jumble of sentiments that formed the Independent's editorial was the suggestion that Megrahi may not have been guilty after all.  The implications of this are that the Scottish justice system is corrupt (or at best incompetent) in which case we urgently need the case to be reopened, and the truth discovered (and the corrupt lawyers severely punished).  What we cannot have is the whole thing brushed under the carpet.