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The following brief article appears in the current issue of Private Eye. My comments follow. Disappointment among the relatives of those who died in the Lockerbie atrocity: Ed Miliband is not blocking their call for a public inquiry following the … Continue reading →

The Firm magazine has today published the following article under the headline Crown Office “communications” unit under fire over “misleading” Megrahi statements   The author of the book “Megrahi: You are my jury” which disclosed major revelations in the ongoing Pan … Continue reading →

The Scottish Review has today published the following article by me, under the headline Secrets of a memo: the Crown and the CIA. It is based on a previously confidential memo concerning the inspection by two of the prosecution tea … Continue reading →

Below is the text of an email that I have sent to the Crown Office concerning the statement it issued in response to the publication of the SCCRC report.   Dear Sir or Madam, I am the author of the … Continue reading →

I have received the following letter of apology from the head of BBC Scotland, Ken MacQuarrie, in relation to its scoop about Abdelbaset’s personal life, which was based on unauthorised use of the SCCRC report. Dear Mr Ashton  Thank you … Continue reading →

Below is the Crown Office full statement in response to the publication of the SCCRC report. As I anticipated, they have cherry picked the parts of the report that are unfavourable to Abdelbaset. My responses to these are in normal … Continue reading →

The BBC is now running this new statement by Alex Salmond, which is rather less partial than his earlier one (see end of article).   I welcome the publication in full of this report, which is something that the Scottish … Continue reading →

First minister Alex Salmond has just issued this statement. It appears that he is still desperately clinging to the fiction that Abdelbaset’s conviction is safe.  Maybe someone should tell him that appeals are not adjudicated according to the number of … Continue reading →

The Crown Office has today issued the following statement in response to the Sunday Herald’s publication of the SCCRC report. It features in a BBC online article. In my view the statement is inaccurate and misleading. My comments are in … Continue reading →

Last Friday afternoon the Crown Office issued a statement, which took many by surprise, announcing that the SCCRC would not be prosecuted for publishing its report on Abdelbaset’s case. As professor Bob Black noted on his blog: For at least … Continue reading →