Lockerbie bomber in freedom hearing
The cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber is due to find out if he is to be freed from jail.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi has applied for interim liberation pending the outcome of an appeal.
Three judges at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh will announce whether his application has been successful.
It emerged last month that the former Libyan intelligence agent, 56, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and the disease had spread to other parts of his body.
Al Megrahi is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 which led to the deaths of 270 people.
He was taken from his prison cell in HMP Greenock under tight security to undergo tests at Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock in September.
Al Megrahi was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in 2001. He lost an appeal in 2002, but was given a fresh chance to clear his name in June last year when the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) referred his case back to appeal judges for a second time.
His appeal is due to be heard next year.
At a hearing last week, appeal judges in Edinburgh were told a "compelling case" existed for releasing Al Megrahi on bail pending his appeal.
The court heard he was terminally ill and should be released on compassionate grounds. But prosecutors argued the gravity of the offence meant he should remain in jail at HMP Greenock.
