The Lockerbie Case: MacAskill to meet Lockerbie bomber over jail transfer

Monday, 13 July 2009

MacAskill to meet Lockerbie bomber over jail transfer

This is the headline over a report in today's issue of The Scotsman. It adds nothing to the reports published yesterday in various Sunday newspapers and referred to in the immediately preceding post on this blog. A similar report appears in The Herald.

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Lallands Peat Worrier13 July, 2009
I was speculating myself over what sort of considerations might nudge MacAskill this way or that when balancing up the factors.

Interesting, and positive to my mind, that interaction with the prisoner is part of that. Per William Blake,

"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face,
And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress...
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