tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post4501164830113951324..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Dewar acts to calm anger as Lockerbie prosecutor quitsRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-64536774606056366062016-02-20T13:24:12.201+00:002016-02-20T13:24:12.201+00:00Ta muchly. This is somewhat parallel to my own th...Ta muchly. This is somewhat parallel to my own thinking. He anticipated possibly/probably losing the trial and decided to bale out while the going was good.<br /><br />I merely add in the apparent realisation on the part of the team preparing the prosecution case, in about November 1999, that they had a serious and possibly fatally unsurmountable problem with the Bedford case, as a possibly contributing factor.<br /><br />Andrew Hardie was lead advocate for the Crown at the FAI. He knew damn well the police case was that the bomb was on the second layer of luggage and the Bedford case was directly underneath it. He would have been expecting to go with the same argument. But if you do that, and it plays out like a game of chess, you end up having to concede that the bomb was in the Bedford case. They realised this in November, I think.<br /><br />Colin Boyd didn't have the same intimate knowledge of the investigation as Hardie had. Maybe he accepted the revised scenario without questioning it.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-47552368007287407262016-02-20T13:05:08.878+00:002016-02-20T13:05:08.878+00:00Here's Scotland on Sunday's take at the ti...Here's Scotland on Sunday's take at the time: http://plane-truth.com/Aoude/geocities/sos222.htmlRobert Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-75956653476079174202016-02-20T13:01:35.425+00:002016-02-20T13:01:35.425+00:00Here's a link to the report that I think Ewan ...Here's a link to the report that I think Ewan is referring to: http://plane-truth.com/Aoude/geocities/suhe222.htmlRobert Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-49850263032098063512016-02-20T12:11:56.353+00:002016-02-20T12:11:56.353+00:00Oh sorry, I meant I had been through this week'...Oh sorry, I meant I had been through this week's paper. No, I really can't find an article that old unless you link me to it.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-73978479864635353422016-02-20T12:10:52.412+00:002016-02-20T12:10:52.412+00:00Been through the paper, can't see it.Been through the paper, can't see it.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-3926131801681790772016-02-20T09:29:16.965+00:002016-02-20T09:29:16.965+00:00Linkie?Linkie?Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-46854122191465075202016-02-19T22:06:40.494+00:002016-02-19T22:06:40.494+00:00I still wonder why Andrew Hardie quit. He had pro...I still wonder why Andrew Hardie quit. He had promised the relatives he would see it through with them. A successful prosecution would have been a big feather in his cap. He only had to keep going for a year and he could have jumped upstairs then with a Lockerbie victory on his CV. But he quit, apparently of his own volition.<br /><br />This seems to have been around three or four months after it dawned on the procurators fiscal that the Bedford case was the bomb, or at least very probably the bomb, and they realised they were going to have to fudge it. I wonder if Hardie jumping ship had anything to do with that. It's quite a time gap, but then it would take time to confirm that the prosecution really was up shit creek with the Heathrow evidence, and then decide what to do, and then do it.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-40094336511775290592016-02-19T20:30:02.264+00:002016-02-19T20:30:02.264+00:00And a few days later Neil MacKay had a piece in th...And a few days later Neil MacKay had a piece in the Sunday Herald, which went a long way to explaining Hardie's resignation. Ewanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164790608082005605noreply@blogger.com