Fitted up

The Observer reports that "the key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake."

A lot of people have suspected for a long time that the Libya was blamed for the 1987 bombing because of international politics rather than evidence. Now one of the defence witnesses, Swiss businessman Edwin Bollier, may have been vindicated.

Few people apart from conspiracy theorists and investigative journalists working on the case were prepared to believe Bollier...