For immediate use: Tuesday 21st December 2010
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POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS
Commenting on the report by four US Senators into the compassionate release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi SNP MSP Stewart Maxwell - a member of the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee said:
“This is just a ridiculous exercise in grandstanding that reaches some bizarre conclusions with absolutely no basis in fact. It is bonkers.
“It is an absolute work of ill informed fiction by the four senators.
“We know Labour’s public opposition to the release contradicted their private desire for Megrahi to be sent home, but no one who has taken a second to look at this case would accept their contention that the SNP Government would do the bidding of a UK Labour Government
“This is a ridiculous re-hash by four Senators of material that is already in the public domain not an official report of the US Senate.
“The senators started off making wild claims about BP lobbying for the release of Al-Megrahi, and end up making the most bizarre allegations about Sainsbury’s buy outs.
“This report is a piece of politically motivated propaganda from the US Senators that lets down all those who worked long and hard to see justice done in the Lockerbie case.”
ENDS
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- Bonnyrigg, Loanhead and District Branch is responsible for SNP activity in the Midlothian Council Bonnyrigg and Midlothian West Council wards. The branch have two sitting Councillors, Cllr Bob Constable (Bonnyrigg) and Cllr Owen Thompson (Midlothian West)
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