On 15 June 2000, journalist Ian Ferguson summarised the day's proceedings of the Lockerbie bombing trial on his website THELOCKERBIETRIAL.COM (http://web.archive.org/web/20030525220448/http://www.thelockerbietrial.com/trial_news_June15.htm):
"Allen Feraday, one of the Crown's key forensic witnesses completed his evidence today. In his evidence in chief, he stated that the bomb, which destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 and killed 270 people, exploded 25 inches inside the fuselage.
"Feraday went on to say that he had pinpointed the precise location of the blast after a detailed study of the damage suffered by all of the cases in the same luggage container as the bomb. He described that he had found at least 13 items of clothing and parts of an umbrella that were inside the Samsonite case at the time of the detonation. It was on the second layer of luggage, resting in the angled container overhang - roughly parallel to the fuselage - or leaning upright, propped against another luggage stack.
"During cross-examination by Richard Keen QC, Feraday was challenged on whether the bomb could have been in any other position than set out in his forensic conclusions. Feraday replied:
'I can't think of any other position.'
"He went on,
'I am not saying there isn't any other position, I just can't find it myself.'
"According to Feraday, he identified at least 13 items said to be from the brown Samsonite suitcase, alleged to have contained the bomb. He pinpoints the location of the case down to the last centimetre, on the second layer of bags.
"Immediately below where Feraday claims the bomb went off, investigators identified a grey Presikhaaf suitcase belonging to UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson. In the early stages of the investigation, this suitcase was seen as the more likely bomb case. Police sources at the time said that this case was cleared of being the suspect case on November 23rd 1989.
"To date not one item from the contents of this Presikhaaf has been found. If there is a scientific reason why nothing has been found from this case, situated below the bomb case then it has not yet been explained in court. To a layperson it seems odd that the case adjacent to a bomb case should have no contents remaining, but from the bomb case itself we have an array of items.
"So what happened to the contents of Bernt Carlsson's Presikhaaf suitcase?"
(https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103/The_Trial#Bernt_Carlsson.27s_suitcase)
Yet another reason for the UK police to conduct a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry!