[The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express ran the following story by Meg Milne on 19 July. It does not seem to feature on the newspaper's website. A number of other Scottish Sunday newspapers apparently decided to spike the story because of the Crown Office statement mentioned below.]
Police will decide this week if one of Scotland's most senior prosecutors is to be investigated over allegations about the Lockerbie trial.
The move comes after SNP backbencher Christine Grahame raised serious concerns in a letter to Lothian and Borders Chief Constable David Strang.
Ms Grahame wants to investigate Crown Agent Norman McFadyen, who led the 2000 prosecution of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, who is appealing his conviction.
Ms Grahame, who said she has concerns about Mr McFadyen's role, said y esterday: "After considerable deliberation I have decided to report this matter to Lothian and Borders Police.
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that the case against Mr Megrahi, w ho is terminally ill, does not, in my view, stand up to thorough examination."
However, in an unprecedented step, the Crown Office issued a statement rebuking Ms Grahame for making "defamatory and entirely unfounded allegations".
A spokesman said: "We have been made aware of serious allegations made by Christine Grahame.
"These are defamatory and entirely unfounded allegations of the most serious kind. Norman McFadyen is a man of utmost integrity who is held in the highest regard by the Law Officers."
A Lothian and Borders Police spokeswoman said:
"If there is a statement from the Chief Constable, it will be on Monday".
Details of the allegations made by Ms Grahame - which have been seen by the Scottish Sunday Express - cannot be repeated for legal reasons.
However, the South of Scotland MSP also claims to have copies of secret US intelligence documents that show Iran may have been responsible for the terrorist outrage.
One document, dated September 24, 1989, states:
"The bombing of the Pan Am flight was conceived, authorised and financed by Ali-Akbar [Montashemi], the former Iranian Minister of Interior.
"The execution of the operation was contracted to Ahmad Jabril, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command leader, for a sum of 1,000,000 US dollars.
"One hundred thousand dollars of this money was given to Jabril up front in Damascus, by the Iranian Ambassador to Sy (Syria) Muhammad Hussan for initial expenses.
"The remainder of the money was to be paid after successful completion of the mission."
As the Sunday Express first revealed in 2004, it also states that analysis of materials confiscated in a raid of a PFLP-GC cell in Germany in October 1988 provided strong circumstantial evidence linking the cell to the bombing and that Iran had reportedly made a large payment to the PFLP-GC following the bombing.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill is currently considering a prisoner transfer request from Libya for Megrahi, 57, who is terminally ill with prostrate cancer in Greenock Prison.
Yesterday, it emerged that some of the families of the American victims are planning to block his repatriation, if it is approved, by applying for a judicial review of the decision.
Ms Grahame claims that such a move would ensure that Megrahi dies in prison and she repeated her calls for the former Libyan agent to be released on compassionate grounds.
Mission Lockerbie:
ReplyDeleteAll the manipulation and falsifications in the Lockerbie-Affair by the Scottish Officials are attempts for thwart the punishment in own thing!
Dear justice secretary Mr MacAskill, what goes on with Mr. Megrahi is a barbarous cruelty! Please justice for Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and Libya as fast as possible!
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland
Honest prisoner exchange:
ReplyDeleteMr Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, you can change the Greenock prison with Dr. Thomas Hayes und Allen Feraday (Experts RARDE) and minimum 3 well-known Scottish policy officers, guilty for having falsified and manipulated decisive evidences (MST-13 timer) etc. during the prosecution and must go 10 years into a Scottish prison. You are demonstrable not guilty, you are free to go!
That would be Human right and Scottish justice...
Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland
Thank God there is one MSP who has integrity and who has not been 'silenced' by the machinations of the British government.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I fear the results of the police investigation will reflect the political need.
MISSION LOCKERBIE:
ReplyDeleteTo implicate Libya and its official Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi into the PanAm 103 bombing a green MST-13 fragment was needed!
This is the reason why instead of the brown original MST-13 fragment a green MST-13 duplicate was fabricated and used as evidence by the prosecution at the court in Kamp van Zeist!
Responsible for this fraud are : Dr Thomas Hayes; Alan Feraday (RARDE); Jim Gilchrist (Scottish police) and others...
It is easy to win the Appeal for Megrahi's defense team. Simply the green falsified duplicate MST-13 fragment, designation PT-35 (B) without the in-scratched letter "M" must be compared with the first evidence photo label PI-995, PP' 8932, with the braun colored MST-13 Fragment PT-35 (B) with the in-scratched letter "M" on it, and everything is clear!
(Photo PI-995 and the MST-13 fragment PT-35 (b), are kept in court archives)
Thus Dr. Hayes and his backers can finally be indicted as counterfeiters of evidence in a heavy crime …
Please see the crucial manipulation of the EXAMINATION report, Page 51 and photo PI-995 from Dr. Hayes, RARDE, Ref. PP-8932, PI/995 on our webpage: www.lockerbie.ch
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland
The evidence of Andrew Hardie QC to the 1990 Fatal Accident Inquiry might be a subject Ms Grahame might consider merited a Police investigation.
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