Dr Swire on the UK Foreign Office's PII claim

In today’s issue of The Herald there is a letter from Dr Jim Swire (who attended Wednesday’s procedural hearing, as he had also the previous two). He calls on the UK Government to cease objecting on “national security” grounds to disclosure to Megrahi’s legal team of the document emanating from a foreign country (relating to timers) that was in the hands of the Crown before the Zeist trial but which was not divulged to the defence even though (according to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission) it could have helped Megrahi’s defence.

Dr Swire’s letter rehearses the problems that have always existed about the timer evidence at the Lockerbie trial, and suggests that the UK Government could have ulterior motives for not wishing this matter to be clarified (which release of the mysterious document might do).

For the full text of the letter, see

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2067864.0.Lockerbie_document_must_be_revealed.php