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Tag Archives: Kenny MacAskill
Sunday Times letter highlights errors in Kenny MacAskill’s book
The Scottish Sunday Times has today published a letter by me about some of the significant errors in its serialised extract of Kenny MacAskill’s book The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice published on 15 May. This comes after a three-month wrangle, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Kenny MacAskill, Lockerbie, Megrahi, Scottish Sunday Times, Sunday Times
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Private Eye article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie book
The following article appears in the current issue of Private Eye (no. 1421): If former Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill believed his new book about the Lockerbie bombing would end the controversy surrounding the conviction of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, he … Continue reading
Latest Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie revelations
The following article by me appears in today’s Sunday Herald under the headline The unravelling of Kenny MacAskill … and the case against Megrahi. It was supposed to be Scotland’s publishing event of the year, former justice secretary Kenny … Continue reading
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Tagged book, clothes, clothing, crown office, Iain McKie, JfM, John Ashton, Justice for Megrahi, Kenny MacAskill, KM180, Lockerbie, Malta, Megrahi, Official Secrets Act, PA 103, Pan Am 103, PFLP-GC, PII, suitcase, Tony Gauci
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Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s PII revelation
The following article, by Peter Swindon and me, was the lead in last Sunday’s Sunday Herald. It apeared under the headline Revealed: MacAskill may have breached Official Secrets Act over Lockerbie. Former justice minister Kenny MacAskill has revealed details of a highly … Continue reading
Kenny MacAskill’s bungled Lockerbie book
Kenny MacAskill’s book The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice today begins its serialisation in The Sunday Times. The book’s blurb casts the author as sleuth, claiming he “answers how and why [the bombing] happened – and who was really … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Kenny MacAskill, Lockerbie, Megrahi, serialisation, Sunday Times
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Magnus Linklater and the ‘conspiracy theorist’ slur
Here we go again. In his column in last Friday’s Times, Magnus Linklater once again wrongly accused Abdelbaset’s supporters of alleging a grand conspiracy to convict him, involving judges, detectives and the intelligence agencies. As I’ve told Magnus before, that’s … Continue reading
New press release
The following release has been sent out in the wake of this morning’s launch of Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters. Lockerbie 25th anniversary: Will Scotland head for independence with a justice system the country can’t believe in? Will the … Continue reading