Former British diplomat Patrick Haseldine sent an e-mail to the UN Observer at the Lockerbie Trial, pointing to an uncorrected mistake in the Libya page on the Foreign Office website and the slowness in the Lockerbie appeal proceedings. by Patrick Hasel On Sunday 20 July 2008, former British diplomat Patrick Haseldine sent an e-mail to the UN Observer at the Lockerbie Trial, Dr Hans Koechler, pointing to an uncorrected mistake in the Libya page on the Foreign Office website and suggesting why Mr Al-Megrahi's Lockerbie appeal proceedings seem to be taking such a long time. Today I extracted from the FCO's Libya website the following section related to the Lockerbie bombing: "The Lockerbie trial began on 3 May 2000. On 31 January 2001 Al-Megrahi was found guilty and Fhimah not proven. Al-Megrahi subsequently appealed against...
[read full story]