This week

I understand that Edwin Bollier (principal of MeBo, the Zürich company that manufactured MST-13 timers, one of which allegedly detonated the bomb that destroyed Pan Am 103) will be visiting Edinburgh for a few days later this week. In 1988 MeBo employed as an engineer Ulrich Lumpert, who has recently sworn an affidavit to the effect that evidence that he gave at the Lockerbie trial about MST-13 circuit boards was false. It may be, though this is speculation on my part, that Bollier will be talking to Crown Office officials about Lumpert's new revelations.

At the procedural hearing on 11 October, the Crown was given six weeks to lodge written answers to the defence's petition for disclosure by the Crown of a document emanating from a foreign government (not the USA) relating to timers, the non-disclosure of which to the defence was included by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission among the six grounds upon which Megrahi's conviction might have constituted a miscarriage of justice. That six week period expires on Thursday, 22 November. If the document has not already been handed over to the defence (which the Crown indicated would happen if the foreign country agreed to its release) the Crown's written answers will require to be lodged on or before that date. Thereafter, a further procedural hearing will need to be fixed for the Court to hear the submissions of the parties and decide whether to order the Crown to hand the document over.