This years entry to the 2011 BP portrait competition measures 200mm x 250mm, it depicts Abdel Ali al-Megrahi. It is presented in an english swept frame made from black oil resin which has been decorated with european and antique gold.Title: Abdel Ali al-Megrahi 2011
"On 31 January 2001, Megrahi was convicted, by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, of 270 counts of murder for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988 and was sentenced to life imprisonment."
"Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish Government on 20 August 2009 following doctors reporting on 10 August 2009 that he had terminal prostate cancer and was expected to have around three months to live. In December 2010 it was reported that his condition had deteriorated and that he was in a coma. Some questions are still being raised into the reason for his release, and whether if he had appealed his conviction might have been quashed"
"On 16 July 2010, four United States senators made public their concerns over the release, stating they believed that the oil company BP pushed for his release to secure a deal with Libya. BP confirmed that it did press for a Prisoner Transfer Agreement"
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