The British were conned.
The man was most likely innocent any ways.
Then reopen the case, don't let him go on false pretenses...
I agree, but there was... lets say... motivation for this to happen. By reopening the case, certain agencies and people would be exposed as fools and opened up to massive lawsuits and I bet they wanted to avoid that.. this includes the FBI. It is basically choosing between scandals.
So, another example of cowardly Europeans at work, here. He was convicted. Let him rot in jail...
I still have a hard time believing a man convicted of killing 270 people was released.
I am still baffled that he was convicted in the first place. The amount of political pressure from Downing Street and Washington on the judges to convict was huge according to reports and the evidence was tainted big time.
But he WAS convicted and I believe that legal procedures are generally better in the UK than in much of the world. I do not see a compelling reason to let this guy go on any grounds short of a judicial re-examination of the case...
You cannot just declare him innocent, if he was innocent the case should have been reopened, right now they've let a convicted man, and one who was convicted with the murder of scores of people, go free under the claim that he doesn't have much time left, and now it appears he'll live on for 10 freaking years.
That's simply disgusting.
What is disgusting is that people willing will allow a possible innocent man to rot in jail just to feel "like we got someone" for the crime. I want justice for the dead at Lockerbie, but not at the cost of putting innocents behind bars.
Possible?!?!? Well, let's find out with the best certainty we can before releasing him on false pretenses. I am not against his release PROVIDING it is to be done with proper judicial and legal procedures. This was NOT done in this case...
I am still baffled that he was convicted in the first place. The amount of political pressure from Downing Street and Washington on the judges to convict was huge according to reports and the evidence was tainted big time.
How? the governments involved blocked any and all attempts to reopen the case or examine the case. The only reason that he was released was if he did not go through his delayed appeal.. delayed by the governments involved.
And lets not forget his release on humanitarian grounds had nothing to do with the case or any appeal but it was made as a condition to the UK government accepting the release... wonder why...
Even to this day the governments involved are fighting to keep evidence secret lol .. why?
And both the UN observer and the Scottish review system claimed there was a possible miscarriage of justice in the case and yet the governments involved and the legal system did everything to delay any investigation or appeal.. why?
And we have not even looked at the evidence or witnesses in the case or how the case was prosecuted.
The US government tried to block his release, how does that fit into your conspiracy theory?
So you believe, you're not a judge and a judge has never came to this decision.I am not declaring him innocent. I am saying he most likely is innocent based on the evidence or lack of evidence against him.
Listen to yourself, you're promoting the unconditional release of a "possible innocent", where the hell is the logic behind that?What is disgusting is that people willing will allow a possible innocent man to rot in jail just to feel "like we got someone" for the crime.
I don't think mac shares the conspiracy theorist gene, Pete.Officially they did yes.... but we both know there is the official version and the non official version.
THE father of a Lockerbie bombing victim made an astonishing £500,000 offer to help free the Libyan accused of his daughter's murder.
Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the December 1988 atrocity, offered part of his compensation cash to lawyers trying to prove the innocence of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, currently serving life in Greenock Prison.
Swire last night to told Scotland on Sunday he had unwittingly contributed to a miscarriage of justice by helping to persuade Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi that Megrahi would receive a fair trial under the Scottish legal system.
So you believe, you're not a judge and a judge has never came to this decision.
Listen to yourself, you're promoting the unconditional release of a "possible innocent", where the hell is the logic behind that?
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