Dr Jim Swire has a letter in today's issue of The Herald in which he draws attention to the fact that the US authorities have disclosed that payments were made to witnesses for information in the Lockerbie case. [It is thought that one of those who received a substantial payment was Tony Gauci, who was treated by the trial judges as having identified Megrahi as the purchaser of the clothes that surrounded the bomb -- though he, in fact, never made an unqualified positive identification.] Dr Swire enquires whether such payments to witnesses might taint their evidence. [It is believed that the -- at the time, undisclosed -- payment to Gauci will feature as one of the Grounds of Appeal in the forthcoming proceedings.] For the full text of Dr Swire's letter, see:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.1948469.0.Paying_for_evidence_is_contrary_to_justice.php
And what of Dr. Swire's offer to pay $500K to Megrahi's case?
ReplyDeleteSwire is a loon.
Resort to vulgar abuse is a sure sign of (a) the paucity of the writer's vocabulary and (b) the weakness of his position.
ReplyDeletemore like the paucity in the lack of a response to the point stated. Swire took the money from the Libya suit, yet claims Megrahi is innocent. Then offers to give a large sum of that money to Megrahi's case, THEN writes an article about paying for justice. Hipocracy, and yes, luncacy at its finest
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