tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post7035742828007113558..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: The development of Tony Gauci’s statementsRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-81209131040486001182015-01-05T09:58:32.014+00:002015-01-05T09:58:32.014+00:00You know, given all that lot above (which is beaut...You know, given all that lot above (which is beautifully collated and presented but which nevertheless represents information available to the defence at the time and which should have been fairly obvious), together with the complementary presentations in the three expert witness reports prepared for the second appeal which deal with the psychology of facial recognition of a stranger see once for a short time in unthreatening circumstances, it beggars belief that the defence in 2000 failed to challenge Gauci in any serious fashion. Trying to trip Tony up in the witness box would probably have been unproductive, at least on its own, but why oh why was there no attempt to call an expert witness or two to rip his dodgy story to shreds in a systematic manner?<br /><br />One other point related to the above, brought out by one of the expert witness reports. If Tony at first believed the man had returned to his shop less than a year later, but then he wasn't sure and then it wasn't him at all (and I believe there was a similar story in respect of someone he saw in a bar), what does that say about his real ability to recognise the man? If he was so unsure even in 1989, how is it possible to have any confidence in his (again tentative and qualified) "identification" in 1999?<br /><br />Sometimes I wonder if the suspicions that the defence team was at some level playing for the other side might have some truth in them.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-31016981665201810782014-12-24T12:03:24.937+00:002014-12-24T12:03:24.937+00:00To be fair to Frank Mulholland (I know, I know), i...To be fair to Frank Mulholland (I know, I know), it's possible he was referring to fabrication and/or planting of evidence when he made that remark. The persistent allegations of evidence-tampering provide an easy straw man for the Crown to attack. No matter how strong the suspicions, nothing has ever been proved to have been planted by anyone involved with the investigation, or indeed planted at all. Bizarrely, the closer you look at the provenance of PT/35b, the more it looks as if it really was on Hayes's lab bench on 12th May 1989 and the paperwork was just a monumental foul-up.<br /><br />So he may have been saying that nobody within the investigation ever expressed concern that a particular item of evidence wasn't genuine. Even that isn't quite true because one of two people have mentioned vague doubts, but it's a more reasonable thing to say than what most people are assuming he meant.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-73489922401014789902014-12-24T12:02:10.759+00:002014-12-24T12:02:10.759+00:00Since August 1990, definitely a wrong date was cre...Since August 1990, definitely a wrong date was created (7th of December, 1988) in order to accuse deliberately the libyan official Mr. Abdelbaset al Megrahi as the buyer of the cloths in "Mary's House".<br /><br />A further proof from MEBO that the sale of dresses in Anhony Gauci "Mary's House" took undoubtedly place on Wednesday, 23th of November 1988 by a supposedly Libyan buyer:<br /><br />Tony Gauci told Bollier on 25.01.2008 in Malta, that the 2 pieces of pyjamas, label "John Mallia", were the last "two" pyjamas he had sold to a Libyan in his shop. On the other day, the 24th of November 1988, Gauci by phon ordered at the company "John Mallia" additionally 8 pieces of the same pyjamas. The 8 pyjamas were delivered on the 25th of November 1988 with the calculation/delivery note, dated 25th of November 1988 to Gauci' s Mary' s House at Sliema Malta. Prod. 477-1.<br /><br />The day after Wednesday, December 7, December 8, 1988 was an official public holiday (Immaculate Conception Day) and the "John Mallia" company was closed. But the day after November 23, November 24, 1988 was not an official public holiday, the company "John Mallia" was open.<br />Justice For Al-Megrahi and Libya, both had nothing whatsoever to do with the Pan Am 103" Tragedy in Lockerbie !...<br /><br />by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Telecommunication Switzerland. Webpage: www.lockerbie.ch<br />ebolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12681382726604052927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-42912550160443668652014-12-24T10:13:37.588+00:002014-12-24T10:13:37.588+00:00Although the reward payments do bring into questio...Although the reward payments do bring into question the credibility of Tony Gauci’s evidence, I suppose in such a high profile case a witness would want to be rewarded so they can hide away afterwards.<br /><br />And the brothers were rewarded well for Tony Gauci’s evidence and ironically the amount reflects how poor that evidence was. <br /><br />This is because for such a high reward it is difficult to see him, ‘beyond a death bed conversion’ changing his mind and telling the truth that he just made it up as required.<br /><br />And for this reason I suspect the brothers have/will be given more money if it starts to run out!<br />Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213240619989073000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-49530789263011774492014-12-24T08:00:28.687+00:002014-12-24T08:00:28.687+00:00Living with the "Lockerbie Affair", 2014...Living with the "Lockerbie Affair", 2014. Facts:<br /><br />The day after December 7, December 8, 1988 was an official public holiday (Feast of the Immaculate Conception)<br />and the "Mary's House" was closed. Gauci could not remember at a public holiday after the visite of the alleged clothes buyer!<br /><br />As example, the day after November 23, November 24, was not an official public holiday, "Mary' s House" was open, as Gauci remembered precisely.<br />Public Holidays in Malta are regulated in terms of the National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act (Chapter 252) of the Laws of Malta. <br /><br />by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Telecommunication Switzerland. Webpage: www.lockerbie.ch<br /><br />ebolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12681382726604052927noreply@blogger.com