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The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland's SNP government in 2009. John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBirlinn General
ISBN-139781780271675
eBay Product ID (ePID)178372110
Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
Publication NameScotland's Shame: Lockerbie 25 Years On-Why It Still Matters
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitics
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn Ashton
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight172 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJohn Ashton