Expert: Lockerbie bomber could live for years

Professor Roger Kirby, a consultant urologist at St George`s Hospital in London, told Channel 4 news that new treatments for prostate cancer mean patients can live for much longer than in the past.

He told the programme that chemotherapy has been known to extend the lives of patients by up to three years.

The professor said: “There are new therapies coming in all the time. There`s chemotherapy which al-Megrahi is on in Libya, there are other new things… these are improving survival rates on these patients really quite dramatically, so it was a big mistake to let him out on the premise that he would be dead within three months.”