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The Scottish Review has recently published the following article by me under the headline The Crown case against Megrahi is about to sink without trace   Next week, 11 years after his conviction, all the important primary evidence concerning the … Continue reading →

The Crown Office today issued this press release, which states: Today the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC, and the Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, Pat Shearer, together with Scottish prosecutors and Scottish and US law enforcement met with … Continue reading →

Today’s Daily Mail, carries an article by Graham Grant, headlined Megrahi’s memoirs ‘will protest his innocence’. The article is below in italics, with my comments in normal typeface. The Lockerbie bomber is set to heap fresh embarrassment on the Scottish … Continue reading →

Today’s Sunday Express carries an article by Ben Borland, headlined ‘Rage at blood money’ from Megrahi book. Here is my response. The article extracts are in italics. CHARITIES are being urged to refuse the Lockerbie bomber’s ‘blood money’ as the … Continue reading →

Twelve months ago, a few days after the start of the Libyan revolution, I posed the following question on Professor Robert Black’s Lockerbie blog: ‘What’s the betting that, sometime in the next few weeks, the following happens: 1) In the … Continue reading →

Dear Mr Ashton I find it ironic to say the least that I should now be branded as a conspiracy theorist re the release of Megrahi from jail when those who protest his innocence are not slow in concocting their … Continue reading →

Modern politics is the art of convincing the public that black is white. There is no finer illustration of the maxim than this press release, just issued by the Scottish Conservatives, headlined Megrahi is blocking release of Lockerbie papers. It … Continue reading →

Megrahi: You are my Jury will finally be published this Spring. When I began writing it two and half years ago, I believed it would be on sale within six months.  I completed a rough first draft in four months, … Continue reading →