Calls grow for Lockerbie bomber's legal documents to be made public

Published on Wednesday 18 November 2009 21:30

CALLS for the documents, which cast doubt on the Lockerbie bomber's conviction, to be made public intensified yesterday, three months after his release.

The Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Robert Brown MSP demanded full details of an investigation carried out by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.

It was the SCCRC that recommended that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi should appeal his conviction for a second time.

Megrahi began appeal proceedings, but dropped them shortly before he was controversially released by Kenny MacAskill. He was released on the basis that he only had three months to live.

Mr Brown suggested making the documents public could offer some comfort to the families of the 270 victims of the bombing.

"There is now an urgent need for the release of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review papers.

"The Scottish Government must look at how the issues in them might be effectively tested by senior judges to give these families the closure they deserve," he said.