Lockerbie victim's father calls on government to clear Malta's name

25 years after the UK’s worst terrorist attack, Lockerbie victim's father calls for the truth to be revealed.

Dr Jim Swire who lost his daughter during the Lockerbie attack
Dr Jim Swire who lost his daughter during the Lockerbie attack

The father of one of the Lockerbie bombing victims today called on the government to demand the Scottish authorities to revoke the sentence which found Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi guilty  and clear Malta's name.

Jim Swire who lost his 24-year-old daughter in the bombing today said "25 years after murdering my daughter the truth is still withheld from us by politicians of my own country and America and their story has put Malta in a bad light because the al-Megrahi sentence holds that Malta was involved, when I'm sure that it was not involved."

Al-Megrahi, who was convicted of killing 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over the south of Scotland town 25 years ago, was freed from prison in 2009 on compassionate grounds because of cancer. Throughout the case the prosecution argued that the accused had planted the bomb on a plane which had left Malta.

Swire who was addressing a press conference about the UK's worst terrorist attack and its links with Malta, is in Malta in connection with the play 'The Lockerbie Bomber' which is being staged at St James Cavalier.

Swire who is accompanied by Robert Forester from the Justice for Megrahi Group, has met Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and foreign minister George Vella.

"Malta has the option to call for an appeal in the Scottish Criminal Care Rreview Commission, so as to clear its name," Swire said.

The man convicted of the bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was convicted of planting the bomb in Malta before it made its way to the ill-fated flight.

He called al-Megrahi 'a friend' and asserted that he was certain about his innocence. "The evidence that persuaded me and many other individuals that al-Megrahi was innocent and a scapegoat was the evidence about the technology of the bomb," Swire said.

 

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During a recent interview in Malta, Dr Swire states that they were told by an American in the USA Embassy in London that both the British and American Governments know what happened, but they are never going to tell. If that is true, then it means that both the British and Americans are guilty of withholding vital evidence and allowing an innocent man to be incarcerated and possibly causing his stressful death. I believe the reason the British and US have done this is because they know that when the real true cause of the disaster is revealed the results will be catastrophic for them. Posted by JOHN HALL RAISD who has been gagged for twenty five years.
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Whilst I also agree that Megrahi was innocent and Malta’s name should be cleared, but at the same time wonder how many of those relatives who also believed that Malta and Megrahi was innocent, were willing to accept the huge compensation payout from Libya ?
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Dr Jim Swire,that time the PN was all out to tarnish Malta,s name,as it was all out also to tarnish the good relations the Government of Malta had with Gaddafi.I suppose you know the real truth more than me the attitude of the pn at that time.
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Heathrow break-in... The news of the break-in itself only became public on the very day of the 9/11 disaster in New York, thus hugely diminishing for the public the potential significance of the break-in. http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/ World Trade Center Demolition - http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com/