https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/11/lockerbie-bomber-conviction-may-have-been-miscarriage-of-justice

“… the government of the United States and the United Kingdom stand exposed as having lived a monumental lie for 31 years, imprisoning a man they knew to be innocent and punishing the Libyan people for a crime which they did not commit …”

Of course. They have lived many a monumental lie, and for longer than 31 years. But this is a shocking story.

In March 2004, journalist Paul Foot[1] wrote the following article for The Guardian. It needs to be read:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/31/lockerbie.libya

It is, perhaps, difficult to believe anything will be done about it now. But, in the tradition of Paul Foot, we should never give up on justice.

[1] Journalist of the year 1972 and 1989 (Granada TV, “What the Papers Say”); Campaigning Journalist of the Year (British Press Awards 1981); received the George Orwell prize for journalism (with Tim Laxton), 1994; Journalist of the Decade (1990s), by Granada again, in 2000. He died on 18 July 2004.