Letters editor, the Guardian: not
sent to any other paper
Sir,
As reported in your sister paper
the Observer today, there are major difficulties over the conviction of the Linyan intelligence agent Abdu
Basset Al Megrhi for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
The Thatcher government of the day
handed management of the case over to the Scots.
Surely a poisoned chalice if ever
there was one.
The evidence led in court
convinced me and many impartial observers that far from being guilty, Megrahi was a scapegoat, probably to protect
It appeared that the highly
circumstantial Crown Case had been supported by deliberately fabricated
evidence which almost certainly originated from the intelligence services of
the
The UK having refused all our
pleas for an independent and full inquiry into all aspects of the disaster,
including the failure to prevent it in the first place, it may now emerge that
we have a common interest with Scottish authorities, in trying to establish the
real truth, at least about the processes of 'justice' which followed in the
court at Zeist.
Sadly more recent events have
opened many eyes to the penalties of blindly following the lead of the
Dr Jim Swire,
father of Flora, murdered at Lockerbie.
Rowans Corner, Calf Lane Chipping Campden GL55 6JQ 01386 849 112 or at present 07768 571
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Dr Jim Swire
(jim@swirefamily.net)