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Sunday Times letter highlights errors in Kenny MacAskill’s book

Posted on August 28, 2016 by John Ashton

The Scottish Sunday Times has today published a letter by me about some of the significant errors in its serialised extract of Kenny MacAskill’s book The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice published on 15 May. This comes after a three-month wrangle, which … Continue reading →

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Private Eye article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie book

Posted on June 23, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article appears in the current issue of Private Eye (no. 1421): If former Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill believed his new book about the Lockerbie bombing would end the controversy surrounding the conviction of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, he … Continue reading →

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Latest Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie revelations

Posted on May 29, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article by me appears in today’s Sunday Herald under the headline The unravelling of Kenny MacAskill … and the case against Megrahi.   It was supposed to be Scotland’s publishing event of the year, former justice secretary Kenny … Continue reading →

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Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s PII revelation

Posted on May 29, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article, by Peter Swindon and me, was the lead in last Sunday’s Sunday Herald. It apeared under the headline Revealed: MacAskill may have breached Official Secrets Act over Lockerbie. Former justice minister Kenny MacAskill has revealed details of a highly … Continue reading →

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Kenny MacAskill’s bungled Lockerbie book

Posted on May 15, 2016 by John Ashton

Kenny MacAskill’s book The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice today begins its serialisation in The Sunday Times. The book’s blurb casts the author as sleuth, claiming he “answers how and why [the bombing] happened – and who was really … Continue reading →

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Response to Magnus Linklater’s latest Scottish Review Lockerbie article

Posted on January 21, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article by Magnus Linklater appears in the latest issue of the Scottish Review under the headline We can be confident that the Scottish prosecutors got the right man. In it in he takes pot shots at Abdelbaset’s supporters and … Continue reading →

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Private Eye on the SCCRC’s Lockerbie decision

Posted on November 25, 2015 by John Ashton

  The following article appears in the latest issue of Private Eye: The recent decision of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) by the Scottish body that it would not be reviewing the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, has been met … Continue reading →

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New Lockerbie article for Consortium News

Posted on November 12, 2015 by John Ashton

I have just had the following article published by Consortium News, under the headline Fresh Twists in the Lockerbie Case On Oct. 15, Scotland’s prosecuting authority, the Crown Office, announced that two Libyan men are being treated as suspects in the … Continue reading →

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Taylor & Kelly press release about the SCCRC announcement on the Megrahi case

Posted on November 5, 2015 by John Ashton

Abdelbaset’s former solicitors, Taylor & Kelly, have today released the following press statement in response to the SCCRC’s announcement that it has rejected the application for it to review his case: It is with some surprise that we learn today … Continue reading →

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The SCCRC say they couldn’t get access to Megrahi’s appeal papers – so why didn’t they ask me for them?

Posted on November 5, 2015 by John Ashton

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has today announced that it has rejected the application made by various UK Lockerbie victims’ relatives and members of the Megrahi family for a review of Abdelbaset’s conviction on the grounds that “it … Continue reading →

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