Twenty-three
years ago in December 1988 my daughter Flora and 258 others boarded a scheduled
flight, PA103, from Heathrow bound for New York.
Thirty-eight minutes after take-off
they died a horrible death over Lockerbie; 11 died below among a rain of
debris.
Who murdered her? Is someone still
blocking exposure of the truth? Why was she not protected in all the
circumstances surrounding the Lockerbie flight? Those are our questions and we
intend to get answers, grievously delayed though we have been by the focus on
Megrahi and Libya.
Now comes a new doubt. The Megrahi
court was deliberately denied vital evidential material which, had it been
heard, might have introduced insuperable doubt as to the prosecution case, and
the cause of the absence of that material from the court hearing is still, 23
years later, unknown. This is the last straw.
In the night of 20/21 December 1988,
16 hours before the catastrophe, a night watchman at Heathrow called Manly
discovered evidence of a break-in allowing entrance to "airside",
close to where the luggage container [later shown to have contained the
Lockerbie bomb in its suitcase] was loaded up for PA103 the following evening.
In January 1989, Manly was
interviewed by Scotland Yard Special Branch. The interviewing officer actually
had the disrupted padlock on the table during the interview.
Yet it was not until after the Zeist
court had reached its verdict against Megrahi on his alleged placing of the
bomb in Malta, that the news of the break-in finally surfaced.
I understand even more compelling evidence
against the authenticity of the "PT35b" fragment will emerge this
very week. Please weigh it up, dear reader, as it emerges.
All we seek is the truth, and we are
tired of waiting.
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