No Justice in This Land

A man sits in his large villa in Tripoli.  A national hero, and a man about to submit his autobiography.  No doubt in fact it will be a best seller, in this in his home nations, given his heroic status.  He chats to news reporters, and talks to them about his attempts to clear his name.  Not via the course process, which would be too slow, but by a public enquiry. 

The odd fact of this case is this man is Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrah, a convicted murder.  Not in fact just that, but the Lockerbie bomber.  Convicted of the killing of 270 people, after the bombing of Pan am flight 103. 

Now, it is often the case that justice can hardly be given out by the legal system, to people who have killed so many innocents.  How indeed could the legal system punish a man for the killing of 270 people?  How in fact could they compensate for the dead children, the morning families and the destruction of lives?  This is, an unbalanced justice. The killer has got away lightly with what he has done, and there is nothing that a justice system can reasonable do to resolve this fact.  Don’t get me wrong reader, I don’t hold hope of resolving this fact, this unbalance.  It is, I suspect irresolvable. 

But, to release a convicted mass murderer?  What justice is that?  I simple do not see how compassionate grounds can be used in regard someone, for whom justice is already unbalanced in their favor.  Already they have inflicted more hard than they could possible pay penance for.  For the offset the punishment could never fit the crime.  Thus why would compassion be required?  So that the murderer could lounge in their big house, penning their autobiography at leisure?  So they may return to a hero’s welcome?  No, this isn’t how justice should be, the victims of his terrorist didn’t have the time to say goodbye, to cherish their last minutes with their loved ones, why should he?

This is a failure of the Scottish government, and it should be well remembered!