Q — Well, I understood you to tell us that these were contemporaneous notes that you prepared as you were carrying out your examinations; is that right?
A — Yes. But presumably our definitions of “contemporaneous” are different.
Testimony of Dr Hayes at the Lockerbie trial, Page 2592.
“As an afterthought I think that had the original Scottish Police Investigators obeyed their political masters by introducing the fragment into the chain of evidence in or around December 1989 then they may have got away with the deception but due to the fact that they chose to alter Forensic notes and photographs and change production labels and attribute Memos in relation to other pieces of evidence to PT/35(b) it was fairly easy to pick holes in their case.”
Lockerbie Investigator George Thomson
The discovery of a tiny fragment of a Swiss timer played an essential role in the Lockerbie investigation. In fact, according to Richard Marquise — the FBI agent who led the US part of the investigation — an indictment would have been impossible without that piece of evidence. Lockerbie investigator George Thomson has concluded that this piece of evidence — known as PT/35(b) — was not discovered in May 1989 as officially stated but in fact surfaced in the fall of 1989. Why would anyone antedate a genuine piece of evidence? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
