tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post2559741012923881395..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: The correct decisionRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-60179551275888311532010-08-19T22:50:51.486+01:002010-08-19T22:50:51.486+01:00Sorry Charles I misunderstood. Had Megrahi not be...Sorry Charles I misunderstood. Had Megrahi not been released and his appeal not been dropped then whether he died or not that process could have been continued by his family.Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-61313354958500101962010-08-19T09:57:59.566+01:002010-08-19T09:57:59.566+01:00Charles the Professor has written elsewhere quite ...Charles the Professor has written elsewhere quite recently on here about the possibilities of resurrecting the appeal after Megrahi's death. The broad answer is yes but those wishing to pursue that avenue would need the permission of his family and then would need to prove it is in the interests of justice for the appeal to be heard.Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-61893972741620114352010-08-19T04:38:08.457+01:002010-08-19T04:38:08.457+01:00I think the Professor hs something here, But what...I think the Professor hs something here, But what would have been the effect on the Scottish judicial sytem, Macaskill's remit, if Megrahi jad died in hospital.Could the appeal have continued after his death? It is generally held what was to be revealed is so unseemly that any means to kill the second appeal were appropriate.<br /><br />Perhaps the Ashton book this autumn will tell use. But don't hold you breath. Some very very nasty was lost when he was released. <br /><br />The truth, foul beyond belief, in which an ineducable poltroon secured election as president of his country in return for 270 fead bodies in reply to 390 his country that measures life in blood Iran. Please read it at adifferentviewoflockerbie.blogspot,comCharleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03662285337385107290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-6076416132734942532010-08-19T00:20:39.333+01:002010-08-19T00:20:39.333+01:00I've re-done that post as there was something ...I've re-done that post as there was something that didn't come over the way I intended. <br /><br />I'm certain Megrahi would be dead by now if he'd been detained. <br /><br />This is an interesting point Kenneth Roy makes. Consider what the fall-out would have been had he died in Greenock Prison? There would have been rejoicing in the US obviously: what of Libya and those trade deals tho? What of those oil-rich Arab nations Bloggy mentions in a recent post elsewhere? The fall-out would have been massive. Interesting questions indeed. <br /><br />The only thing I disagree with Kenneth about is that MacAskill had decency in mind in any of it. He may have released Megrahi but more and more it becomes obvious that compassion had nothing to do with it. Any sense of decency would have involved true compassion by allowing a dying man every opportunity to clear his name instead of taking from him his route to the court of appeal.Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-13051293404746879052010-08-18T23:07:41.864+01:002010-08-18T23:07:41.864+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.com