Scotland's Shame

Scotland's Shame
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780857906427
ISBN-13 : 0857906429
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Book Synopsis Scotland's Shame by : John Ashton

Download or read book Scotland's Shame written by John Ashton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland's SNP government in 2009. John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted. With numerous observers believing the Crown Office is out of control and the judiciary stuck in the last century, politicians must address these problems or their aspirations for Scotland to become a modern European social democracy are bound to fail.


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