UK Call for United Nations Inquiry into 1988 Lockerbie Bombing

This is the title of an article on the website of the Mathaba News Agency. It refers to Patrick Haseldine's online petition to the Prime Minister
( http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/UNInquiry/) to urge a United Nations inquiry into the death of the UN's Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, aboard Pan Am 103.

The article contains the following passage about the Lockerbie trial: 'However, the conduct of the trial and resignation of judges before it even began "due to political pressures [from the British government to have Libya found guilty]" led to much criticism, and did not throw any light on the truth of what happened.'

As far as I am aware, no judges allocated to the case resigned before the trial began, for reasons of "political pressure" or any other reasons. It may be that what is being alluded to is the resignation of the Lord Advocate (Scotland's chief prosecutor) Lord Hardie of Blackford QC, shortly before the trial started. I am sure that there was nothing sinister in this resignation (unlike many other aspects of the Lockerbie affair). Lord Hardie's resignation was due to his appointment as a judge and he was replaced by his second in command, the Solicitor General for Scotland, Colin Boyd QC, who had been intimately involved in the preparation of the Lockerbie prosecution and who had always been expected to exercise day to day supervision over it.

For the full Mathaba article, see http://mathaba.net/news/?x=574616