(Edinburgh, Scotland)
On 21st December 1988 a bomb exploded on a Pan-Am flight over Scotland. Two hundred and seventy people were killed, including eleven people in the Scottish town of Lockerbie. In May 2000 the trial of the only two accused started in a specially convened Scottish court in Holland, in front of Scottish judges and under Scottish law.
One of the accused was found not guilty of murder and sent home. The other was found guilty and sent to Barlinnie. This month, terminally ill with prostate cancer, he was released on compassionate grounds and sent home according to Scottish laws which allow any terminally ill prisoner to be released.
Devolution might be a convenient excuse to pass on controversial decisions that London hasn’t the guts to make, but it’s no excuse to start bullying yet another small country. Time for London to mind its own business.
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