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Tag Archives: Megrahi
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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Response to Magnus Linklater’s latest Scottish Review Lockerbie article
The following article by Magnus Linklater appears in the latest issue of the Scottish Review under the headline We can be confident that the Scottish prosecutors got the right man. In it in he takes pot shots at Abdelbaset’s supporters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abouagela Masud, Ken Dornstein, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, Scottish Review
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Private Eye on the SCCRC’s Lockerbie decision
The following article appears in the latest issue of Private Eye: The recent decision of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) by the Scottish body that it would not be reviewing the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, has been met … Continue reading
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Tagged Jim Swire, John Ashton, Lockerbie, Megrahi, SCCRC, Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, Tony Kelly
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New Lockerbie article for Consortium News
I have just had the following article published by Consortium News, under the headline Fresh Twists in the Lockerbie Case On Oct. 15, Scotland’s prosecuting authority, the Crown Office, announced that two Libyan men are being treated as suspects in the … Continue reading
Taylor & Kelly press release about the SCCRC announcement on the Megrahi case
Abdelbaset’s former solicitors, Taylor & Kelly, have today released the following press statement in response to the SCCRC’s announcement that it has rejected the application for it to review his case: It is with some surprise that we learn today … Continue reading
The SCCRC say they couldn’t get access to Megrahi’s appeal papers – so why didn’t they ask me for them?
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has today announced that it has rejected the application made by various UK Lockerbie victims’ relatives and members of the Megrahi family for a review of Abdelbaset’s conviction on the grounds that “it … Continue reading
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Tagged appeal papers, interests of justice, legal papers, Lockerbie, Megrahi, SCCRC, Taylor & Kelly
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