
Saif Gaddafi’s mention of court gives hope for IRA victims
Jason McCue, lawyer for the IRA victims and their families,
Jason McCue, lawyer for the IRA victims and their families,
The correspondence on Lockerbie supports the story that the government U-turned on whether al-Megrahi should be excluded from a prisoner transfer agreement or not. The letters have already been selectively leaked – they’re now all there on the Foreign and Commonwealth, Ministry of Justice and Scottish government websites. More interesting perhaps is something about to…
Over the summer, the fog of ‘conspiracy’, ‘commercial deals’ and more have clouded around the fundamentals of what we know about the ‘early release’ of the convicted Libyan ‘Lockerbie bomber’. I’ll be surprised if today’s release by Edinburgh and London of the ‘Lockerbie papers’ dispels the clouds significantly.
It’s been one of those days that feels like a month. I can hardly remember this morning. This afternoon will stay with me though. At 4.30pm I met the Lockerbie bomber. It looked to me as though Abdel Basset al-Megrahi wasn’t long for this world. If he was going to face sentencing “by a higher power,”…
Channel 4 News has spoken to the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in his Libyan hospital room and has these exclusive images.
Gordon Brown is a politician, like few others in the UK, who knows and reveres the achievements of the Kennedy dynasty, but an on-camera tribute could fuel the row over his silence on Lockerbie bomber release.
The Scottish Parliament looks set to debate the Lockerbie bomber release on Wednesday morning of next week, but the SNP will not face a no confidence vote.
Why Gordon Brown is being advised to maintain his silence on the release of convicted Libyan al-Megrahi.