[This is the heading over two letters published today in The Herald. They read as follows:]
You allude to the fact that grave disquiet about the handling of the Megrahi case continues ("New plea by LibDems for Lockerbie public inquiry", The Herald, January 3).
The concerns that Britain's worst terrorist atrocity may additionally have become Scotland's greatest miscarriage of justice are now so deep-seated that a full public inquiry is required to establish the truth and restore faith in the justice system.
That view is not shared by the legal establishment. Last month, Frank Mulholland, the Lord Advocate, went on public record and stigmatised those who question the validity of the Lockerbie verdict as "conspiracy theorists".
In support of his contention, he alluded to the number of judges (the trial judges and the appeal court judges) involved in the case and, in effect, concluded that the verdict was therefore unassailable.
Others, with perhaps a more sophisticated grasp of elementary logic, could point to the number of grounds which were used by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to justify the case being referred back to the Court of Criminal Appeal and conclude that Scotland's judges are not necessarily deities.
Thomas Crooks
Edinburgh
I cannot agree with Christopher Frew, who is opposed to the holding of a public inquiry into the Lockerbie case because it would upset US public opinion (Letters, January 4). Far too many questions hang over the conviction of the late Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi for the horrific bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie, and these questions will not go away.
If Megrahi was innocent, justice demands that his name must be cleared for the sake of his family, for all the bereaved families, and for the reputation of the Scottish justice system.
Anything less than the truth should be unacceptable to the public on both sides of the Atlantic. Let a full public inquiry be held and the true facts be known.
Ruth Marr
Stirling
MISSION LOCKERBIE, 2013 (google translation, german/english):
ReplyDeleteThe baggage situation on PanAm 103 at Heathrow Airport shows convincingly that the "bomb- bag" was loaded at Heathrow.
Technical explanation:
Because the baggages of PanAm 103, for flight to New York, was corresponding with the baggage loading list, although only one (1) of two (2) unaccompanied on-line "Samsonite suitcase", of pilot John Hubbard, was loaded on flight PA-103 !
Previously, both pieces of luggage were brought from Shuttle flight (PA-103/a) from Frankfurt to Heathrow for the on-line transfer on main flight PA-103.
Only one of the two "Samsonite suitcase" with "rush tag" was transferred on PanAm 103, at Heathrow. The second "Samsonite suitcase" landed at the end of the Heathrow baggage claim area. Hubbard indicated that he received one of the bags at Seattle the next day, on 22 December and the other, which destroyed over Lockerbie. He travelled to Lockerbie and identified its bag.
Another unaccompanied suitcase, which not should include on flight PA-103, could be assigned later, to Mr. Basura, a passenger who got drunk at Heathrow airport and missed his plane.
Obviously, an additional unknown bag ("bomb-bag") at Heathrow has been loaded.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.ch
MISSION LOCKERBIE, 2013 (google translation, german/english):
ReplyDeleteOutrageous !
Not only a statement by Heathrow security guard Raymond Manly, who discovered a break-in 18 hours prior to the departure of Flight 103, was “buried” and not disclosed during the trial !
Also pilot John Hubbard's mysterious crucial incident with the unaccompanied on- line "Samsonite suitcases", wo was loaded on flight PA-103, only 1 (one) of 2 (two) - was embezzled !
The second "Samsonite suitcase" landed at the end of the Heathrow baggage claim area. Hubbard indicated that he received one of the bags at Seattle the next day, on 22 December and the other, which destroyed over Lockerbie. He travelled to Lockerbie and identified its bag.
The loading list could be complete with the Baggages only, when an extra bag (probably the "Bomb-Bag") was loaded at Heathrow.
Is this the solution ?
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.ch