and in other news, grass is green, the sky is blue.
A grievous miscarriage of justice – described by some as the worst in British legal history – may have occurred in the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing, the Scottish criminal cases review commission has found.
Like these ####ers didn't know all this nineteen years ago when the deals were done.
The legal team submitted six grounds why the Megrahi case constituted a miscarriage of justice. The commission upheld two of the grounds, concluding a miscarriage of justice may have occurred by reason of an “unreasonable verdict”, which allows an appeal on the basis that a conviction was based upon a verdict that no reasonable jury could have returned, and on the ground of “non-disclosure”.Anwar’s team submitted a number of allegations of the failure of the crown to disclose evidence, which could have been key to the defence and interfered with the right of a free trial
I don't expect the appeals to be successful in the end unless someone is about to be hung out to dry, not for the first time in this case.