Pressure piles up for independent prosecutor in Lockerbie (PAN AM Flt 103 bombing) case

[JohnyCanuck]

Pressure piles up for independent prosecutor in Lockerbie case
Police Scotland to submit report in weeks after probe into ‘perverting course of justice’
By John Davison | 4 March 2016

Scotland’s chief law officer faces growing pressure about who will decide on any prosecution for allegedly perverting the course of justice over the Lockerbie case.

Police are expected to submit a report within weeks to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland’s prosecuting authority, on allegations of interference with the original investigation that led to the jailing of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Police Scotland is investigation the allegations under ‘Operation Sandwood’.

As allegations also cover the original prosecution and include claims of perjury at al-Megrahi’s trial, campaigners say that the Crown Office has a conflict of interests over the case. Iain McKie, one of those campaigners and a former detective superintendent, said: “The Crown Office is totally unable to give an unbiased and unprejudiced assessment of this report.”

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5787/pressure-piles-up-for-independent-prosecutor-in-lockerbie-case

[Wilms]

1. Thanks for posting this.

Pretty awkward, this Lockerbie thing.

[MisterP]

2. who're they blaming it on now? Syria? North Yemen?