Michael Russell (politician) a generation: "Shirley McKie – The Price of Innocence" (). Shirley McKie's case assumed an international significance with a possible linkage to the case of convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was granted leave to appeal against his conviction for a second time by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission on 28 June 2007. Megrahi's appeal began in Edinburgh on 28 April 2009, and a public inquiry into the McKie case started in Glasgow on 2 June 2009. Russell supported the successful campaign to have The Tinkers' Heart in Argyll listed as a Scheduled Monument, with listing taking place in
Lockerbie Lockerbie Lockerbie (, ) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, southwestern Scotland. It lies approximately from Glasgow, and from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town came to international attention on 21 December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie apparently has existed since at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") means "Lockard's Town" in Old Norse. The presence of the remains of