London, 25 Aug-(ANA)-UK Prime MinisterGordon Brown has said he was "repulsed" by the welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber on his return to Libya.
In his first comments since the freeing of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, Mr Brown said he was "angry" about the jubilant scenes as he left the plane in Tripoli.
Mr Brown said he had had "no role" in the Scottish government's decision to liberate Megrahi, and declined to say whether or not he supported the move.
Opposition leaders have accused the PM of a "deafening silence" on the issue.
Megrahi, found guilty of killing 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, received a rapturous welcome in Tripoli last week and later met Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Brown said: "I was both angry and I was repulsed by the reception that a convicted bomber guilty of f a huge terrorist crime received on his return to Libya."
He added that he had made it "absolutely clear" to the Libyan leader when they met in July at the G8 summit in Italy that the decision was a matter for the Scottish government alone.
He said the UK could not interfere in what was a "quasi-judicial process" and could have "no control over the final outcome".
Mr Brown stressed that his "first thoughts" were with the families of victims of the Lockerbie atrocity but said he was still committed to working with countries such as Libya to fight terrorism. (ANA)
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