EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Scotland’s top judge called on the British government on Thursday to provide him with two secret documents relating to the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.
The papers have been cited as crucial to an appeal by former Libyan secret agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the bombing, in which 270 people were killed.
Lord Hamilton, sitting with two other appeal court judges in Edinburgh, said the lawyer representing the government should “produce for the court the documents in question … subject to appropriate security measures being in place within seven days.” for more click here