THE JUSTICE FOR MEGRAHI CAMPAIGN

ScalesJustice for Megrahi (JFM) is a single issue justice campaign group comprising the committee and the signatories.

It maintains that on the basis of the evidence laid by the Crown before the three judges of the High Court of Justiciary at Kamp van Zeist (Netherlands), the 2001 conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie (Scotland) was a miscarriage of justice. Although the central plank of JFMs position is concerned with the contention that no reasonable court could have convicted on the basis of the evidence as presented to the court, it also acknowledges other factors beyond this relating to, amongst other things, the fact that whilst the Crown was aware of evidence of value to the defence case before the trial, this evidence did not become public knowledge until after the verdict had been passed. JFM exists to address issues surrounding the investigation of the destruction of the aircraft and the subsequent trial of Mr al-Megrahi and Mr Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. Its main objective is to campaign to have Mr al-Megrahis conviction quashed.

The Committee Members:

  • Professor Robert Black QC
  • Mr Robert Forrester
  • Father Pat Keegans
  • Dr Morag Kerr
  • Mr Iain McKie
  • Dr. Jim Swire

The Signatory Members:

  • Ms Kate Adie (Former Chief News Correspondent for BBC News).
  • Mr John Ashton (Co-author of: ‘Cover Up of Convenience’).
  • Mr David Benson (Actor/author of the play ‘Lockerbie: Unfinished Business’).
  • Mrs Jean Berkley (Mother of Alistair Berkley: victim of Pan Am 103).
  • Mr Peter Biddulph (Lockerbie tragedy researcher).
  • Mr Benedict Birnberg (Retired senior partner of Birnberg Peirce & Partners).
  • Professor Robert Black QC (‘Architect’ of the Kamp van Zeist Trial).
  • Mr Paul Bull (Close friend of Bill Cadman: killed on Pan Am 103).
  • Professor Noam Chomsky (Human rights, social and political commentator).
  • Mr Tam Dalyell (UK MP: 1962-2005. Father of the House: 2001-2005).
  • Mr Ian Ferguson (Co-author of: ‘Cover Up of Convenience’).
  • Dr David Fieldhouse (Police surgeon present at the Pan Am 103 crash site).
  • Mr Robert Forrester (Justice for Megrahi Committee).
  • Ms Christine Grahame MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament).
  • Mr Ian Hamilton QC (Advocate, author and former university rector).
  • Mr Ian Hislop (Editor of ‘Private Eye’).
  • Fr Pat Keegans (Lockerbie parish priest on 21st December 1988).
  • Ms A L Kennedy (Author).
  • Dr Morag Kerr (Lockerbie commentator).
  • Mr Andrew Killgore (Former US Ambassador to Qatar).
  • Mr Adam Larson (Editor and proprietor of ‘The Lockerbie Divide’).
  • Mr Aonghas MacNeacail (Poet and journalist).
  • Mr Eddie McDaid (Lockerbie commentator).
  • Mr Rik McHarg (Communications hub coordinator: Lockerbie crash sites).
  • Mr Iain McKie (Retired Superintendent of Police).
  • Mr Marcello Mega (Journalist covering the Lockerbie incident).
  • Ms Heather Mills (Reporter for ‘Private Eye’).
  • Rev’d John F Mosey (Father of Helga Mosey: victim of Pan Am 103).
  • Mr Len Murray (Retired solicitor).
  • Cardinal Keith O’Brien (Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh and Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church).
  • Mr Denis Phipps (Aviation security expert).
  • Mr John Pilger (Campaigning human rights journalist).
  • Mr Steven Raeburn (Editor of ‘The Firm’).
  • Dr Tessa Ransford OBE (Poetry Practitioner and Adviser).
  • Mr James Robertson (Author).
  • Dr Jim Swire (Father of Flora Swire: victim of Pan Am 103).
  • Sir Teddy Taylor (UK MP: 1964-2005. Former Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland).
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize Winner).

 

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