'Jury finds its own way to fairness and justice'

heraldscotland staff

Published on 17 Dec 2008

Comment: For those looking on in the UK and beyond, Mohammed Asha's acquittal surely teaches a better lesson about justice than seeing hundreds of Brits burning in Glasgow airport or London's west end.

Austin Lafferty
For those looking on in the UK and beyond, Mohammed Asha's acquittal surely teaches a better lesson about justice than seeing hundreds of Brits burning in Glasgow airport or London's west end.

Far from being spectators at some empty show trial orchestrated by lackeys of the great Satan, a British jury once again finds its own way to fairness and justice, and has both convicted and acquitted on the evidence alone.

This is no rubber-stamping job done under orders for state or police. Indeed, the latter's actions overstepped the line concerning Dr Asha's involvement and actions to make conviction more likely, and still the jury made up its own mind.

Those who proselytise and make war for a great caliphate over the west seek to portray the UK as an implacable enemy and suppressor of Muslims, justifying the breakage of our infidel bodies and institutions by faithful soldiers of Allah using any means at hand. However, what such benighted martyrs are not told is the simple fact that unlike them, sometimes our people have the right to say no to the Government. One can only hope the message is heard throughout the Muslim world.

l Austin Lafferty is one of Scotland's best-known solicitors.