Calls for the medical evidence behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber to be published in full were stepped up today.
Six months have passed since the Scottish government allowed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to go home to Libya on compassionate grounds - after medical evidence indicated he only had three months to live.
The Libyan is being treated for terminal cancer in his homeland, and both Labour and Tory opposition in Scotland have demanded that full details of why he was released are published.
Megrahi was greeted by cheering crowds in Tripoli after flying home from Scotland, scenes which prompting widespread revulsion in Britain and the US.
Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill cited the three-month prognosis when he released the convicted bomber on August 20 last year.
Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray said: "The decision to release Megrahi was a grave error of judgment and six months on it is also clear that it was a completely botched process.
"Kenny MacAskill should have properly weighed the seriousness of Megrahi's crime and long sentence against his compassion for the victims of the Lockerbie bombing.
"The Justice Secretary should not have gone to Greenock Prison for a personal meeting with Scotland's worst mass murderer and he certainly should have obtained a second opinion on the medical evidence."
Labour justice spokesman Richard Baker added: "The public deserve to know exactly what the evidence said and I urge the justice secretary to release the medical evidence in full immediately."
Megrahi is the only man to have been convicted of the Lockerbie atrocity which saw 270 people killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on December 21 1988.
A recent inquiry by Holyrood`s Justice Committee criticised Mr MacAskill`s decision to visit the bomber in prison.
Tory justice spokesman Bill Aitken, who chairs the committee, said: "Six months on and Scotland is still sickened by the sight of his hero's return to Tripoli.
"Alex Salmond's SNP government is still refusing to publish the independent medical advice upon which they based their decision to free Britain's biggest mass murderer.
"The time has come for that to change. The public has a right to know the full details of why the Lockerbie bomber was released, including backdated reports and all ongoing medical assessments."
A government spokeswoman said the medical report from the director of health at the Scottish Prison Service on which Mr MacAskill based his decision, had been published on the Scottish Government website.
The report does not detail the advice from various consultants and specialists who looked into Megrahi`s case.
The spokeswoman added: "The justice secretary said at the time of the release that he may die sooner or he may die later. Mr Al-Megrahi was allowed to go home to Libya to die on compassionate grounds.
"It was the right decision for the right reasons, Mr MacAskill followed due process every step of the way and he has repeatedly expressed his deepest sympathy for the relatives of all victims of the Lockerbie atrocity."