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Latest Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie revelations

The following article by me appears in today’s Sunday Herald under the headline The unravelling of Kenny MacAskill … and the case against Megrahi.   It was supposed to be Scotland’s publishing event of the year, former justice secretary Kenny … Continue reading

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Scottish Review article on the latest Lockerbie claims

  The Scottish Review has just published the following article by me about the the coverage of Ken Dornstein’s film My Brother’s Bomber. Lockerbie is back in the news. On 15 October the Crown Office announced that the lord advocate and … Continue reading

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Private Eye reports on the latest Lockerbie claims

  The following article appears in the latest edition of Private Eye, published today. The announcement earlier this month that the Scottish police are pursuing two new Libyan suspects over the Lockerbie bombing appeared, at first glimpse to be a … Continue reading

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More Lockerbie errors by Magnus Linklater

The following article by Magnus Linklater appears in the Scottish edition of The Times under the headline Lockerbie evidence points firmly in the direction of Libya. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with Mr Linklater’s writing on Lockerbie, it contains numerous distortions … Continue reading

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What Megrahi told Senussi about Lockerbie

As everyone who follows the Lockerbie knows, two new suspects have been named: alleged bomb-maker Abu Agila Mas’ud and former Libyan security chief Abdullah Senussi. In truth, neither name is new, both have been suspects for almost 25 years. (I … Continue reading

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Private Eye reports on Lockerbie and the shelving of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill

The latest edition of Private Eye (no. 1366) carries the following article. The Scottish government has quietly shelved for at least a year its controversial Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, heading off an escalating row over the need for corroboration before … Continue reading

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An open letter to Magnus Linklater

Dear Magnus, First of all, let’s keep this civil. People I respect assure me that you are a decent man. I don’t want to make an enemy of you, or things to get nasty.  I’m writing to respond to a … Continue reading

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Press coverage of ‘Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters’

The Herald 3 October The father of a young woman killed in the Lockerbie bombing warns the SNP’s hopes for the referendum will be adversely affected by Scotland’s failure to address major concerns about the prosecution and the trial. Dr … Continue reading

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Birlinn blog post

This is a post that I have just done for Birlinn’s blog. Scotland’s Shame argues that Lockerbie is the biggest scandal of the country’s post-devolution era. It sets out the failures, distortions and evasions of both the country’s prosecution service … Continue reading

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New press release

The following release has been sent out in the wake of this morning’s launch of Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters. Lockerbie 25th anniversary: Will Scotland head for independence with a justice system the country can’t believe in? Will the … Continue reading

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