Court upholds Lockerbie bomber’s conviction
World
January 16, 2021
EDINBURGH: Five judges at Scotland’s highest court of criminal appeal on Friday upheld the conviction of the only man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing after a posthumous legal challenge.
The family of former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, which brought the case, said they were heartbroken at the decision, their lawyer Aamer Anwar said.
They will apply to appeal to the UK Supreme Court within 14 days, he added. The ruling at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh comes just over 32 years after what remains Britain’s worst terrorist attack, with long-held doubts about Megrahi’s involvement.
On this day in 1919, the United States Congress ratified the 18th amendment to the American Constitution, authorising the prohibition of alcohol. It is a day that may be celebrated by Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP Government. The prohibitionists in America regarded booze as one of society’s great evils, causing alcoholism, ill-health, domestic violence, bar-room brawls and the lowering of public morals. Our First Minister and her allies seem to share that view in Scotland. The booze ban in America led to years of gangsters, bootleggers, speakeasies and increased crime, until it was finally repealed in 1933. Maybe the SNP Government should learn the lessons of history as they pursue their relentless hardline on hooch.
Two senior judges have heard cases before Hong Kong’s highest court within the past few days, fuelling controversy over the role of the British legal profession in the former colony.In one, a former
The family of the only man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing is to take its case to the UK Supreme Court after the latest attempt to clear his name was rejected.Abdul Baset al-Megrahi, a former
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