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00:00When Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down by a terrorist bomb,
00:21270 innocent people, passengers, air crew, and people on the ground
00:25had their lives taken away from them.
00:30John Ashton has been investigating the Lockerbie case for almost 20 years.
00:43The Lockerbie disaster was Europe's worst terrorist attack.
00:48More American civilians died in that attack than in any other terrorist event before 9-11.
00:59That's also Britain's worst miscarriage of justice.
01:03The wrong man was convicted and the real killers are still out there.
01:125 years ago, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which is based in Glasgow, produced
01:25a still unpublished report which found six grounds for saying there was a miscarriage of justice.
01:31The SCCRC's chief executive is Gerard Sinclair.
01:35The SCCRC is a quasi-judicial public body which was set up in Scotland in 1999 for the purposes
01:42of investigating allegations of miscarriage of justice.
01:46It's an independent body which is separate both from the government and from the courts.
01:53After working as an investigator for Al-Megrahi's legal team, John Ashton went on to write his biography.
01:59Thanks to Al-Megrahi, Ashton gained rare access to the report by the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission.
02:06The public Background