The Lockerbie Case: A doleful anniversary

Saturday, 31 January 2009

A doleful anniversary

On 31 January 2001 the Scottish Court at Camp Zeist convicted Abdelbaset Megrahi of the murder of 259 people on board Pan Am 103 and eleven people on the ground in Lockerbie. Perhaps before the ninth anniversary this miscarriage of justice will have been rectified. But at the speed that the present appeal proceedings are progressing, I would not counsel you to hold your breath.

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