Then-Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell wrote to Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulati al-Obeidi in October 2008 to explain how to apply for compassionate release , a British official told the U.S. Embassy in London , the cable says . UK : The British Foreign Office has no immediate comment . London believed they would release Megrahi on compassionate grounds , a spokesman says . He 's the only person convicted in the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270 people .
UK : The British Foreign Office has no immediate comment . London believed they would release Megrahi on compassionate grounds , a spokesman says . He 's the only person convicted in the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270 people .