Kenny MacAskill (2016 Event)

In 2009, then Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill controversially
granted the release on compassionate grounds of Abdelbaset
al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted for the Lockerbie Bombing
in 1988. Now MacAskill has written his own account of the
terrorist attack, the trial and the turmoil that has ensued. With
forensic detail he explores the forces at play and why some
questions continue to remain unanswered. In this event recorded
live at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, he
discusses his contentious book with Ruth Wishart.