Calls for the documents, which cast doubt on the Lockerbie bomber's conviction, to be made public intensified yesterday, three months after his release.
The Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Robert Brown MSP demanded full details of an investigation carried out by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.
It was the SCCRC that recommended that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi should appeal his conviction for a second time.
Megrahi began appeal proceedings, but dropped them shortly before he was controversially released by Kenny MacAskill. He was released on the basis that he only had three months to live.
Mr Brown suggested making the documents public could offer some comfort to the families of the 270 victims of the bombing.
"There is now an urgent need for the release of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review papers.
"The Scottish Government must look at how the issues in them might be effectively tested by senior judges to give these families the closure they deserve," he said.
[The above is the text of an article in today's edition of The Scotsman. Once again, the readers' comments are also worth reading.
Earlier posts on the projected release of SCCRC material can be read here and here.]
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