tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post4528898457268236510..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: US reaction to SCCRC permitting Megrahi appealRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-83382001267397848782016-06-29T10:24:24.658+01:002016-06-29T10:24:24.658+01:00"'It’s nonsense,' said Dan Cohen, who...<br />"'It’s nonsense,' said Dan Cohen, whose only child, Theodora, a student at Syracuse University, was killed in the bombing. If Mr Megrahi is sent back to Libya, Mr Cohen said, 'he’ll go back a hero, and a rich hero, I would assume.'<br />'It’s very depressing,' he added."<br /><br />As you would expect from the Cohens. No discussion about the validity of arguments.<br />No concern if they convicted the wrong guy. They saw the same as everybody else at the trial. If they have a proof that links Megrahi to the crime they should bring it.<br /><br />With Gauci and date of purchase being ruled out as unsafe evidence there is nothing left. Coded passport, and presence on Malta when LM180 took off. And he knew MEBO, and his country had bought timers. So it must be him, beyond reasonable doubt? Not to mention that he partner was not guilty.<br /><br />With later revelations about the timer fragment, and Morag Kerr's analysis the case is simply stone dead. It wasn't him.<br /><br />"The Scottish panel insisted that it had 'found no basis for concluding that evidence in the case was fabricated by the police, the Crown, forensic scientists or any other representatives of official bodies or government agencies.'"<br /><br />As recently discussed there is no way to force anyone to conclude anything. <br /><br />At least it must be correct to state, that if Fhimah was truly innocent, then Giaki's testimony can only have been a fabrication, which he could not have made himself without help.<br /><br />Is Boyd's "nothing that would impinge" also not fabricating false evidence - or is it just that it is called something else?<br /><br />But as The Crowns spokesmen say: "The conviction is safe".<br />We wouldn't have thought it possible, but we learn something about our fine democracy every day.SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.com