A story "'Golfer' tells of plot to lay the blame at Libya's door" in Scotland On Sunday suggests that the Libyan security officer, convicted in 2001 of the 1988 murder of all 259 passengers and crew on Pan-Am flight 103 as well as 11 residents of Lockerbie, may have been innocent after all.
The story begins:
A RETIRED Scottish police officer who worked at a senior level on the Lockerbie case has made a series of astounding allegations against his fellow investigators, accusing them of tampering with evidence.
The detective, who is not named but is given the codename Golfer throughout the defence submission to the SCCRC, makes a number of dramatic claims. Foremost among them is his contention that bogus evidence became central to the case against Megrahi, 55.
If they are proved to be true, his astonishing claims that evidence was fabricated and planted to create the Maltese chain of evidence linking to Megrahi will cause irreparable damage to a Scottish justice system already tarnished by its handling of the case. ...
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