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I am today publishing, in conjunction with the Sunday Herald, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission’s report on Mr Megrahi’s conviction. It will be available for download here at midday and can already be viewed on the Herald’s website. Mr … Continue reading →

In view of recent developments, I predict that the Crown Office will selectively leak to Sunday newspapers sections of the SCCRC report that are less favourable to Abdelbaset. My money is on the Sunday Times.

The Daily Record has today published the following article under the headline Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi’s appeal “had more holes than Swiss cheese”.  It’s based on an unattributable briefing by a Crown Office source. This strengthens my view that the Crown … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon the Crown Office issued the following press release, which included a letter from the Lord Advocate to the SCCRC. The Crown Office knows more than it is saying and, in my view, this is a panic measure.   … Continue reading →

I’ve just been sent a short article, which appeared in last Friday’s edition of the Scottish Daily Mail, on page 42, under the headline Megrahi book is a publishing flop.  It reads: The Lockerbie bomber’s ‘deathbed memoirs’ have been a … Continue reading →

The latest issue of Private Eye carries the following article, under the headline Source sauce, about the BBC’s recent tawdry scoop on Abdelbaset’s private life.   The BBC has failed to protect its journalistic sources over its recent “revelation” about … Continue reading →

As the Times is now behind a paywall, much of its content remains under the radar. So it was with an opinion piece written by the late Paul McBride QC, published on the day of the book’s publication, 28 February, … Continue reading →

On 18 March Scotland on Sunday ran an article headlined Megrahi probe ‘failed to speak to FBI agents’, which reported criticisms of the SCCRC by FBI officers Oliver ‘Buck’ Revell and Richard Marquise. It states: Oliver “Buck” Revell, the former … Continue reading →

I’ve just been sent a copy of the front page splash from last Sunday’s Scottish edition of the Sunday Times, headlined Lockerbie conspiracies demolished. It’s a classic of its kind: recycled information masquerading as news, based on a false predicate.  … Continue reading →

The latest issue of the New Statesman carries the following article by me under the headline Still no justice for Megrahi   The killing of 270 people on 21 December 1988, when a bomb destroyed the New York bound Pan … Continue reading →