Monthly Archives: March 2012

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 →

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 →