Lockerbie victim

Published on 16/08/2012 00:00

It will soon be the third anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

At the time of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi’s release the pious justice secretary Kenny MacAskill spoke of how “Mr al-Megrahi now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power”.

However, on his return to Libya, Megrahi did not live for the predicted three months but for 33 months.

So this “higher power” 
decided to defer the death 
sentence on Megrahi, perhaps 
as a message to the Scottish 
Government to open an inquiry into the whole Megrahi affair, from his “sole” responsibility for the Lockerbie bomb to his early release.

There were 271 victims of the Lockerbie bomb: 270 people and then Scottish justice itself.

Neil Sinclair

Clarence Street

Edinburgh