48 grounds were sumbitted by Megrahi to the SCCRC. Out of those only FOUR were accepted as a POSSIBLE miscariage of Justice. They spent two plus years on that review, including 16 volumes and thousands upon thousands of pages of submissions, not to mention world wide investigations and 15,000 statements. Yet they and only came up with FOUR grounds on which the SCCRC found that a miscarriage of justice MAY (not did, MAY) have occurred.
I'm sorry, but your position here is unclear. You concede that SCCRC identified a number of potential grounds for a miscarriage of justice but seem do suggest that four is an insufficiently large number notwithstanding the fact that - logically - all it takes is one in order to ensure that the judgement was flawed.
Moreover you confirm that the SCCRC spent some considerable time on the review, including 15,000 statements, which in turn might lead one to reasonably conclude that such a decision was well-supported.
And that was four years ago. Wonder how this will all play out, now that the Gaddafi regime has fallen and there is so much more REAL EVIDENCE available from former Libyan regime defectors, which was not available then. Doubt the Scots will be willing to spend millions again on a revisit to the SCCRC.
Do you have links to any such "real" evidence or is this just idle speculation?
Wonder where that money came from in the first place. BP and Blair come to mind. And any further SCCRC investigation brings to mind pigs flying.
It has been explained to you before, several times, that the SNP administration in Scotland is diametrically opposed to Westminster (inasmuch as it is pushing for independence, amongst other things) and has nothing to gain from supporting any deal betwixt Blair, BP, and Libya. Nevertheless you continue to chant this mantra as if it were some form of smoking gun and I for one would really like to know what kind of evidence you have for such a claim, inasmuch as the investigative press in the UK have been searching in earnest for some considerable time now without success.
Then again, there's always Swire, possibly coughing up "blood money" that he gladly took from the PA103 victims / Libya settlement.
Nothing like an ad-hom attack to kick off a sceptical discussion, eh?
Do tell, what is the exact definition of hypocrite? And then there's the Megrahi family opportunity for an appeal. Wonder how much of that Gadaffi money spent on Megrahi's posh prison accommodations, including catered meals, satelite television, internet and phone access (to news reporters), etc. will be spent on any appeal, if / when Megrahi finally croaks, and is no longer an hindrance around spilling secrets about how he planted the bomb. Face it. He did it, Gaddafi paid for him to keep his mouth shut, and Gadaffi is all to happy to see Megrahi dead. As soon as the heat and separation from Gadaffi happened, Megrahi is on his own. Left to die in the palatial estate that Gadaffi paid for.
I can't speak for your country, but in ours the hospitals all seem to have catered meals, television, internet, and telephone access. I assume, therefore, that your objection is that Megrahi should be incarcerated in the very strictest of gaol conditions without access to such facilities notwithstanding that he is very clearly near death.
It's a view. I don't agree with it, inasmuch as I believe that such a lack of compassion reflects poorly on our own humanity, but many of your countrymen seem to take the same view.
HELLO???? IMHO, I hope they both rot in hell and pay for all the murders for which they are responsible. Being dropped from an airliner onto the Libyan desert where video of buzzards eating every last remains of them for the entire world to witness would be far too kind.
And yet you concede that the SCCRC identified four substantive reasons to believe that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred. You seem quite happy to condem (literally) a man to death despite concerns regarding the integrity of the evidence against him.
Do you have a plan to bring him back from the dead if and when it turns out that you're wrong?
WIth the exception to the buzzards, who would not have drugs available to them, nor satellite TV to to recover from the disgusting and lethal matter they ingested, nor observance of their lives played out on the media, nor palatial estates in which to be released in their dying days, nor any family to be near them in said palatial estate whlst they die - that would truly be sad.
Aye, whatever.
That said, once again, on a revisit to the SCCRC, brings to mind pigs flying, but with the added emphasis of said pigs springing from the orrifice of a dead mass murderer and his master's butts, over the dead bodies of BP, Tony Blair, the UK pimps and their Scottish whores; Kenny MacAskill, et. al.. what's her name? The one with the hair that looks like rabid squirrels as well as her supporters (aka more whores) have been nesting in it for far too long for even more pathetic reasons aka nothing else to do with their lives?
You realise that this kind of unsubstantiated rabid rant does not reflect at all well on you or the integrity of your arguments, yes?
Oh yes, and let us not forget the conspiracy theorists here, who have done so much toward progress of the LIbyans and Megrahi over the years in their pathetic rants and wastes of time, when they have absolutely no real personal connection to this travesty, outside of nothing else better to do with their lives / time . How's that workin' out for ya? Hmm???.
Some considerable time ago, Rolfe and others posted an extensive series of detailed posts which set out the concerns regarding the safety (or otherwise) of the Megrahi conviction. This included cross-reference to evidencial sources, legal testimony, and the views of various learned observers to the trial. You refused point-blank to respond to these issues, instead placing wholesale weight on the guilty convinction itself.
As far as I can see nothing has changed; you arrive, hurl around ill-considered insults whilst overlooking any evidence, then stomp off in the huff for a couple of months. I therefore have to ask myself what you think you're achieving, other than further tormenting yourself? Whilst the personal circumstances that brought you to this stage are harrowing, you're only doing yourself harm and - no matter how hard it is - you need to take a step back.
on him failed to spot it. Sure, he had two passports, one in another name to allow him to get on with that smuggling without being identified as a LAA employee. He says he simply picked up the one that came to hand, even though he shouldn't have, and his wife gave him hell for it later.
