tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post1601426096217308327..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'visited Malta for sex'Robert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-14212980623024791312012-03-08T21:01:54.177+00:002012-03-08T21:01:54.177+00:00Thanks Rolfe but I was too quick off the mark and ...Thanks Rolfe but I was too quick off the mark and got a whole lot wrong. : ( <br /><br /><br />Matt (Berkley) provided some info on the FB Friends of JFM site which clarified for me a few things I didn't know. Matt said,<br /><br />"By "those closely concerned with the criminal case" I was referring to the people who received the report when the case was referred in 2007:<br /><br />"In accordance with the Commission’s statutory obligations, a statement of the reasons for its decision has been sent to the High Court, the applicant, his solicitor, and Crown Office." (by the SCCRC)<br /><br />Since the revelations on Monday by BBC Scotland John Ashton, the biographer, has stated he allowed access to his copy (which he used with Megrahi's permission) to the producer of the documentary BBC Scotland did. That info was shared with BBC Scotland who chose to then use selective parts for their own very odd reasons. I believe John had a written agreement about how the report was to be used and I understand he has now formally complained about the paperwork being passed to the BBC. <br /><br />I do admire John Ashton for the work he is doing however it upset him somewhat that I believed he had been naive in trusting anyone connected with the media with that report. John felt that without it there would have been no documentary. <br /><br />I'm saddened too by quotes from a BBC "spokesperson" who said it was in the public interest to release "selected abstracts" of the report. Why selected? Why not the whole lot???? Surely that would have been more in the public interest and in the interest of justice too? <br /><br />So while I now withdraw my earlier rant about carting Ken MacQuarrie off for questioning I remain utterly convinced that BBC Scotland's handling of this information breaches its own code of impartiality. There was a clear agenda here and it is shocking that Lockerbie, where 270 lives were lost, is something BBC Scotland wants to play appalling games with!Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-65825870217255185832012-03-06T14:37:35.099+00:002012-03-06T14:37:35.099+00:00Thanks, Rolfe.
Jo G's posting (that crossed ...Thanks, Rolfe. <br /><br />Jo G's posting (that crossed mine) asks all the pertinent questions.SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-86214026322841931722012-03-06T10:41:18.583+00:002012-03-06T10:41:18.583+00:00Megrahi has had a copy all along. I imagine Ashto...Megrahi has had a copy all along. I imagine Ashton has seen that. As I understood Maggie Scott, it's only illegal for the lawyerly types to reveal the contents.<br /><br />This is leaking so bad, I don't know why someone doesn't just send it to Wikileaks and be done with it.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-12166373528827249042012-03-06T00:33:18.571+00:002012-03-06T00:33:18.571+00:00Exactly who can be allowed to see that report?Exactly who can be allowed to see that report?SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-90406479787368362632012-03-05T22:26:02.530+00:002012-03-05T22:26:02.530+00:00My question is where did they get the report and h...My question is where did they get the report and how soon will we get a full investigation. <br /><br />We were told only the SCCRC had access to it, that the Crown did not have access to it nor even the Justice Minister. So where did they get it? Or is it simply not true that only the SCCRC have the report? <br /><br />While it was illegal for anyone to hand it over I'd bet it is also a major, major breach of the BBC's own code to attempt to get access to such a document, encased, as it is, in Data Protection Law. <br /><br />The other big part of their own code they have breached is the section on impartiality. We ALL know the SCCRC ultimately concluded that, sex-jaunts to Malta or not, there were SIX grounds to suggest a possible miscarriage of justice. If the BBC obtained this document illegally it would be nice to think they'd done so in the interests of justice. Given the manner in which they have selected the material released it appears however that there is a clear intention to scupper the growing calls for justice in this terrible case in which we are talking about the loss of 270 lives. The conduct of BBC Scotland is therefore utterly despicable, all the moreso when those lives were actually lost in Scotland itself. <br /><br />Ken MacQuarrie was allowed to walk away from searching questions when his mob obtained video tapes of the Sheridan police interviews even before the verdict was announced. MacQuarrie bleated then, in a defence more suited to a Sun "journalist" that he had to protect his sources, even if the sources then, the police or the crown, were themselves breaching DP laws and committing contempt of court by handing those tapes over. He cannot get away with that this time. There must be a full inquiry into how they got that report. If this report didn't come from the SCCRC then I suspect THEY will be calling for answers too.Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-37680683052469330882012-03-05T19:19:55.105+00:002012-03-05T19:19:55.105+00:00MISSION LOCKERBIE, 2012:
Has BBC no more ammuniti...MISSION LOCKERBIE, 2012:<br /><br />Has BBC no more ammunition for the DIRTY CAMPAIGN against Mr. Al Megrahi -- they must shoot at those nasty facts ? <br /><br />by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.chebolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12681382726604052927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-9086901971797980612012-03-05T17:26:40.834+00:002012-03-05T17:26:40.834+00:00Megrahi's claim that he could travel to and fr...Megrahi's claim that he could travel to and from Malta without documentation has been in the public domain for a long time. It may be true that it weakens his alibi for 23rd November 1988, but it doesn't appreciably strengthen the Crown's case either. The Court of Appeal held that the so-called identification relied on Megrahi being <i>provably</i> in Sliema on 7th December. (And that in itself is a dodgy argument - if I'm in town and someone who looks like me commits a crime, then I've been positively ID'd as the perpetrator.) That's without factoring in the complete demolition of Gauci's evidence that has since occurred.<br /><br />Secondly, if Megrahi could travel to and from Malta leaving no documentary trace, why didn't he do so on 20/21 December?petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05831322202596781171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-62215758776329243302012-03-05T16:27:54.996+00:002012-03-05T16:27:54.996+00:00Did he not claim before his only purpose in visiti...<i>Did he not claim before his only purpose in visiting Malta on the 20/12/88 was to buy a bannister?</i><br /><br />According to his account in the book, which tallies more or less with Marcello Mega's article in the <i>Record</i> some time ago, and with what was presented at trial, he said he went to Malta primarily so that Fhimah could introduce him to his business partner Vassallo. A mutual acquaintance had asked Megrahi if he could help with the pair's new business venture, MedTours, and Megrahi was intending to employ Fhimah as a co-ordinator of the Paris to Dakar rally, whose Libyan leg he was organising. Megrahi also intended to do some shopping in Malta, particularly to buy carpets for the new house he was building.<br /><br />He said that while he was meeting Vassallo in Vassallo's house he admired the wooden staircase there, and enquired about having one made in Malta for his new house. Fhimah subsequently contacted the joinery workshop on his behalf, and the workmen visited Tripoli to tender an estimate, but Megrahi rejected it as being too expensive.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-5971311262656492982012-03-05T14:22:19.824+00:002012-03-05T14:22:19.824+00:00If the BBC really have seen this report, and this ...If the BBC really have seen this report, and this is the only element they considered sharing, then they really en route to hell in a handcart.<br /><br />Not one mention of the grounds for appeal, just a bit of Sun-style titillation and an implicit dig at how it potentially strengthened the prosecution case (with no mention of the SCCRC concerns).<br /><br />Just scandalous.RX Factorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04465009374406569287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-31975983191599772732012-03-05T10:59:55.850+00:002012-03-05T10:59:55.850+00:00Did he not claim before his only purpose in visiti...Did he not claim before his only purpose in visiting Malta on the 20/12/88 was to buy a bannister?bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-17738988082565297882012-03-05T10:19:46.737+00:002012-03-05T10:19:46.737+00:00If the BBC have seen this report how come the only...If the BBC have seen this report how come the only thing they want to talk about is Megrahi having a mistress on Malta?Fourfolksachehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12651190231842907126noreply@blogger.com