Lockerbie truth

Published on Friday 23 December 2011 00:00

THE farcical “evidence” used to convict Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (your report, 22 December) was quite frankly unbelievable. Scotland’s justice system had an obvious and very serious failure as it so obviously locked up (then released just in time before a successful appeal) the wrong man.

Worryingly, the real murdering perpetrators are at liberty.

It may be politically awkward and it may bring questions about the competence of our legal institutions, but the priority must be to get to the truth about who killed all those poor souls a few days before Christmas 1988.

David Flett

Cooperage Quat

Stirling

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Tartancult

Friday, December 23, 2011 at 09:20 PM

"Worryingly, the real murdering perpetrators are at liberty.".................................................. Everyone(?), including those who believe that Megrahi was involved AND those who do not belive Megrahi was involved, know this. Some (allegedly) knew this before, during and after the trial but did absolutely nothing with their (alleged) knowledge, so anything anyone has to say on this matter - if they haven't put it before the courts - is persiflage at best. But I do love the latter day lamentations re the legal system, gives some people the gravitas they lack in their lives.

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samcoldstream

Friday, December 23, 2011 at 06:58 AM

The High Court of Justiciary records show that that one accused al-Megrhi was found guilty, but many forget that his co-accused Fhimah was found NOT guilty. What has happened to Lamin Khalifah Fhimah?

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CharlesNorrie

Friday, December 23, 2011 at 06:12 AM

Well done, Mr Flett. You have hit the nail on the head, Because of the craven subservience of government both in Scotland and the UK a very great crime was allowed to take place whish was ordered by the US government, demanded by the Iranian one and carried out by agencis of both states, the CIA and Pasdaran . Why was the Lockerbie area crawling with CIA men hous after the crash. Why was a meeting held by the nascent Lockerbie Investigation on Christmas morning to which American "investigators" or should I say conspirators were invited to which they spoke and said the first job of the day was to return a suitcase, believed to be that of Mr McKee. How had that got into the hands of the CIA. How amongst all the hundreds of suitcases strewn over the dank hillsides had it even been possible for the CIA to find that one. The Radio Forth correspondent who properly reported this gross interference with a scene of crime was threatened with precognosed by the police as if he had had some connection with the commission of the Lockerbie crime., but the police were prepared to deal. They would allow him to meet anyone he wanted including Mrs Thatcher if only he told them who had leaked. He consulted the leaker and then declined to reveal his source. The reporter was not precognosed and the story was allowed to die and is only retold from a paragraph in an obscure book about Lockerbie by a David Johnstone. The man deserves very great praise for being the first to tell than everything that was happening at Lockerbie was being done ant the behest of US intelligence, and what wa being done was criminal by any standards. Unless the UK and Scotland came to understand they were shamefully used by a great power, which has trashed a legal system, destroyed a UK scientific agency andpartially corrupted another we will never undestand what Lockerbie was about.

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