Thursday 24 July 2008

The case the FBI will never forget

This is the headline over a story in the News and Star, a newspaper in Carlisle, the nearest large town in England to Lockerbie. It quotes Richard Marquise, who headed the FBI's Lockerbie taskforce and Kathryn Turman, a director in the FBI's office of victim support, as well as retired Chief Superintendent Tom McCulloch of Dumfries and Galloway Police. The article does not mention that Abdelbaset Megrahi's conviction is currently under appeal as a result of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission's finding that it might have constituted a miscarriage of justice.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 July, 2008

    It is a real shame that someone dedicated news space to the 270 victims of the Lockerbie disaster. (Sarcasm intended). Professor Black--you seem to have forgotten all about the victims choosing to devote your attention to what you say "might be a miscarriage of justice." There was no "might" about all those who lost their lives 20 years ago.

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  2. The news space wasn't dedicated to the victims of the disaster, but to some of those who investigated it. And I fail to see how the victims of any disaster are honoured by a wrongful conviction and a miscarriage of justice. Concern for victims does not exclude concern for justice.

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