Wednesday 8 October 2014

Dad tells of Lockerbie bombings aftermath

[This is the headline over a report published yesterday on the website of Leicestershire newspaper The Hinckley Times. It reads as follows:]

Rev Malcolm Clarke hosted two evenings in conversation with John Mosey, father of Pan Am Flight 103 victim Helga Mosey, at Hinckley’s United Reformed Church in The Borough

Talking in public with the father of one of the Lockerbie bombing victims was one of the most moving things minister Malcolm Clarke has ever done, the clergyman has admitted.

Mr Clarke hosted two evenings in conversation with John Mosey, father of Pan Am Flight 103 victim Helga Mosey, at Hinckley’s United Reformed Church in The Borough.

Around 130 people went along to hear Mr Mosey talk about December 21 1988, the day his life changed forever, and how, as a Christian, he has coped since with the aftermath of the murder of his 19-year-old daughter.

Mr Clarke said: “This event was one of the most moving I can ever remember.

“He told us that he and his family felt able immediately to forgive the bombers but that he has found it more difficult to forgive the western nations who clearly knew something beforehand but chose to say nothing.

“Nevertheless he spoke about the embodiment of the Christian ethic to ‘forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us’.

“And he told us more about the international politics of the event, whereby he holds neither Libya nor the convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi responsible but rather feels that more unpalatable facts have been suppressed for 25 years, and he hopes that one day the truth will out.”

Mr Mosey together with Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter was also killed on board the flight, and others are campaigning for the conviction of the so-called Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be overturned.

Megrahi, who was the only person convicted in connection with the incident, died in 2012 after beingreleased from jail on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from cancer.

Mr Mosey said he would be glad to return to Hinckley to talk again about the situation if the Scottish courts uphold the appeal. 

[Further blogposts referring to the Rev’d John Mosey can be found here.]

1 comment:

  1. I have not been an ardent follower of Lockerbie, but from the very beginning I knew Libya was being set up. Cursory glances at how the case developed proved that the Scottish legal system fell in line with the Americans because any sand nigger would do. This is more than a travesty and is one of the reasons why the current world beast that comprises the western oligarchic structure is infesting the world with its cancerous existence today.

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