“The Lockerbie trial is the most disgraceful miscarriage of justice in Scotland for 100 years. Every lawyer who has read the judgment says ‘this is nonsense’. It is nonsense.”
Robert Black QC FRSE — Professor Emeritus of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh, also known as the “Architect of the Lockerbie Trial”
“I don’t think there’s a lawyer in Scotland who now believes Mr Megrahi was justly convicted. The Americans were out for vengeance. Anyone with a darker skin would do. With their barrowloads of money to buy witnesses, aided by our police and prosecution, they hoodwinked our courts.”
Ian Hamilton QC — Recipient of a lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Law Awards of Scotland
“I do believe that Megrahi is an innocent man and that in time the truth of that will emerge. I have never found a full answer to Lockerbie. And this will always be a source of great distress. […] We need the truth, and we need justice, to allow ourselves to be at peace. Otherwise, we’re still back on December the 21 1988, in the darkness.”
Father Pat Keegans — Parish priest for Lockerbie at the time of the crash
“I am the father of Flora Swire, who was murdered on the aircraft in 1988, and I attended the subsequent trial of Libyan Abdelbaset Al Megrahi. By the end I was convinced that we had witnessed a parody of justice. There were many deficiencies in the evidence, and those of us who have sought the truth have been further frustrated by the Government and Scottish High Court. It has become clear to us that the trial was designed not to convict those responsible, but to further the wishes of the US and UK governments.”
Dr Jim Swire (October 7 2018)
June 22 2020 — On January 31 2001, Fhimah was found not guilty. His co-accused Megrahi was convicted of mass murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 27 years. I regard the Lockerbie verdict against Megrahi as a Grand Monument to Human Stupidity. Indeed, the written opinion of the Lockerbie judges is a remarkable document that claims an ‘honoured place in the history of British miscarriages of justice.’ I sincerely hope that the readers will come to share my belief if they do not already think so. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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