Sir Iain Livingstone

Chief Constable of Police Scotland

2 Clyde Gateway

French Street

Glasgow   G40 4EH                                             7 December 2022

Dear Sir Iain,

                             BERNT CARLSSON: MURDERED IN THE UK

Thirty-three years ago today, The Guardian published this letter from me:

                                          "FINGER OF SUSPICION"

"Exactly one year ago, you published my letter suggesting that Mrs Thatcher might have a blind spot as far as South African 'terrorism' is concerned.

"Fourteen days after publication, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky upon Lockerbie. Of the 270 victims, the most prominent person was the Swede Mr Bernt Carlsson - UN Commissioner for Namibia - whose obituary appeared on page 29 of your December 23, 1988 edition.

"I cannot be the only puzzled observer of this tragedy to wonder why police attention did not immediately focus on a South African connection. The question to be put (probably to Mrs Thatcher) is: given the South African proclivity to using the diplomatic bag for conveying explosives and the likelihood that the bomb was loaded aboard the aircraft at Heathrow (vide David Pallister, The Guardian, November 9, 1989) why has it taken so long for the finger of suspicion to point towards South Africa?

"Were police inquiries into Lockerbie subject to any political guidance or imperatives?"

On 21 November 2022, I wrote to Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, to request a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry. Sir Mark's office replied on 5 December 2022:

Dear Mr Haseldine,

Thank you for getting in touch with the Commissioner.

I have done some enquiries around this matter and I can confirm that primacy of any investigation remains with Police Scotland in this matter and therefore any enquiries in relation to this matter or request for any action to be taken in light of that should be sent to them directly.

Kind regards,

Adam Abdul-Hamid, Inspector, Staff Officer to the Commissioner, New Scotland Yard, Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2JL

POLICE SCOTLAND INQUIRY

Accordingly, Sir Iain, could you now please

A. Open a Police Scotland inquiry into the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103; or,

B. Authorise the Metropolitan Police Service to launch a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry.

Yours sincerely,

Patrick Haseldine

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