Letter: Guilty as charged

DOES it occur to John Eoin Douglas (Letters, 2 March) that he has no right to state that Abdel- baset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was “wrongly convicted” as if this were an established fact, when it is nothing of the kind?

Megrahi was convicted in a trial held under international scrutiny and his conviction has not been overturned.

He was, and is, legally guilty and will be until, if ever, he is pronounced innocent after a legal process.

I certainly do not know, and no more does Mr Douglas, what the outcome of such a process would be, and I see little sense in talking as if it had taken place and found in Megrahi’s favour.

Derrick McClure

Rosehill Terrace

Aberdeen