US Lockerbie bomber investigation

[MMI]

What are they quoting a Tory SMP for? They are the least relevant "serious" party in Scotland.

I'm tempted to suggest that al-Megrahi's survival for such a long time is testimony to the efficiency of the Libyan health service. He probably wouldn't have lasted so long in Greenock Prison.

Our Health Service is little better than our Legal System, which is supposed to convict only when guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt, yet in this case, where we have the Lord Advocate saying that the main witness was not quite the "full shilling", and whose testimony was suspect in that his identification of al Megrahi as the man he had sold clothes to 11 1/2 years earlier was simply that Megrahi "resembled" the customer ...

Worry first that /megrahi was not the victim of a miscarriage of justice, rather than making sure that someone ... anyone ... can pay the penalty for killing Americans

[IAN 2411]

I have to agree with MMI on this one as I was waiting for someone to bring up his trial. There were a lot of doubts cast as to some of the evidence and the only thing that committed him to jail was the one MMI mentioned. I forget the main events in the trial and I remember the speculation by the press about the clothes issue. I believed when he was sentenced and I do believe now that the wrong man was jailed, there were too many things didn’t add up at the time. Although when he was committed to jail, the press all changed their tune as nine times out of ten they always will. I believe strongly that there is a person out there that is guilty of a massacre and is still walking about free and he’s not in Libya. I don’t think it is the medical records of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Meggrahi the Americans should be asking for, they should be asking for the papers belonging to the investigation and the court case itself. You cannot even blame the Scottish court for any miscarriage of justice if there was one, they can only decide by the mitigating evidence that they are supplied with. One other thing you might like to think about, is that maybe the Scottish court found out later that it was a stitch up and that was why he was released. The English government might be involved as well.

Regards ian 2411