Monthly Archives: May 2012

The new edition of Private Eye carries the following article under the headline Justice short-circuited. The newly-revealed document to which it refers can be read here.   For 19 years prosecutors and investigators kept secret a detailed report about the … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Inside Story programme on Al-Jazeera English featured a discussion on the Lockerbie case and its implications for Libya. I was interviewed along with Alan Mendoza of the neocon Henry Jackson Society and UK-based Libyan activist Mohamed Eljarh.

The Firm magazine has compiled an archive of its outstanding Lockerbie coverage. It’s in two parts, with part 1 available here and part 2 here. Hats off to the editor Steven Raeburn. No one has covered the case with such … Continue reading →

Here are links to four of the interviews that I’ve done for the BBC since Abdelbaset’s death on Sunday. The times of my contributions are provided in brackets. Please note that the links will expire in a few days. 5 … Continue reading →

The following piece appears in today’s Daily Mail, with my by-line, under the rather overstated headline (not mine) I can prove the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ was INNOCENT   The death of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, better known as the Lockerbie bomber, brought … Continue reading →

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Ali Megrahi, who has died aged 60, was known to the world as ‘the Lockerbie bomber’; an unrepentant terrorist and senior Libyan intelligence agent. To many who have studied the case, he was the victim of the … Continue reading →

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 →