Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: The Lockerbie Disaster; Application for posthumous appeal seen as "a significant development" - with a caution that there are "major problems and pitfalls in the path of overturning the shameful conviction of Mr. Megrahi." The Lockerbie Case. Prof. Emeritus Robert Black;

POST: "Application submitted to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission for posthumous Megrahi appeal," published by "The Lockerbie Case," on June 5, 2014. (The Lockerbie case is described as"a commentary on the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the murder of 270 people in the Pan Am 103 disaster, by Professor  Emeritus Robert Black.);

GIST: This morning a press conference is taking place in Glasgow to announce that today an application is being submitted to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission for review of the conviction of the late Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the murder of the 270 people who died at Lockerbie in the Pan Am 103 disaster. Among those speaking at the conference are the Rev'd John Mosey, Dr Jim Swire (each of whom lost a daughter in the tragedy) and Aamer Anwar, the solicitor instructed by the applicants. This is a highly significant development. But, as I have been at pains in the past to point out, there are major problems and pitfalls in the path of overturning the shameful conviction of Mr Megrahi. Nevertheless, it can be done -- and if the reputation of Scottish criminal justice is ever to be redeemed, it must be.

The entire post can be found at:

http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.ca/2014/06/application-submitted-to-sccrc-for.html

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