The Lockerbie Case: Swire offered cash help to al-Megrahi

Sunday, 7 October 2007

Swire offered cash help to al-Megrahi

Scotland on Sunday has a story by Marcello Mega to the effect that Dr Jim Swire, father of one of the victims aboard Pan Am 103, offered a substantial sum of money in 2005 to Megrahi's defence team, at a time when Libyan funding for the continuing fight to overturn his conviction appeared to be drying up:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1600882007

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