Tony Gauci

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Tony Gauci is a former proprietor of a clothes-shop in Malta. According to evidence given at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in 2000, Mr Gauci sold the clothes which were said to have been wrapped around the improvised explosive device (IED) that brought the aircraft down. He was the only witness to link Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi directly to the IED.

[edit] Uncertainty

At the trial, Tony Gauci was uncertain about the exact date he sold the clothes in question, and was not entirely certain that it was Megrahi to whom they were sold.

[edit] Controversy

Five years after the trial, former Lord Advocate, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, publicly described Gauci as being "an apple short of a picnic" and "not quite the full shilling". Since Fraser had been responsible for the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and for indicting Megrahi in November 1991, the present Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, called upon Fraser to clarify his remarks about Gauci.

[edit] References

• Pressure grows for explanation in Lockerbie witness dispute