Helen Street in Greater Govan lies barely a mile from the Scottish Event Campus, as the crow flies across the Clyde. But for the next fortnight the two locations will be worlds apart.
TAM DALYELL, the former campaigning MP who died on Thursday, said in a poignant final interview he would go to his grave believing that the conviction of the alleged Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was a “massive injustice.”
The star witness in the Lockerbie bombing case was has died, according to reports in the Maltese press. Shopkeeper Tony Gauci, 72, sold the clothes that were alleged to have been in the same suitcase as the bomb. Prosecutors claimed that the purchaser was Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the bombing in 2001.
It was supposed to be Scotland’s publishing event of the year, former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill’s long awaited account of his controversial decision to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
Fifteen years ago, three Scottish law lords found Abdelbaset al-Megrahi guilty of the Lockerbie bombing. For many observers, including the majority of the relatives of the attack’s 270 victims, it was an unsatisfactory verdict. Megrahi’s co-accused, Lamin Fhimah, had been acquitted and there seemed little prospect of Megrahi’s alleged Libyan superiors being brought to trial.
