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    Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters
    Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters
    Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters
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    Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters

    By John Ashton

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    The journalist reveals the scandal behind Scotland’s Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and the questionable conviction of a Libyan terror suspect.

    The Lockerbie bombing of 1988 remains one of the most notorious acts of terrorism to be perpetrated in the United Kingdom. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous. Decades later, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release in 2009 on compassionate grounds.

    In Scotland’s Shame, journalist and researcher John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational. He details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favorable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 6, 2013
    ISBN9780857906427
    Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters
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    John Ashton

    John Ashton is a writer, researcher and TV producer. He has studied the Lockerbie case for 18 years and from 2006 to 2009 was a researcher with Megrahi's legal team. His other books include What Everyone in Britain Should Know about Crime and Punishment and What Everyone in Britain Should Know about the Police.

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