The families of the bombing victims said they felt "devastatingly let down" after the prosecution collapsed.
Once again an expensive public prosecution collapsed, this time as the main witness Florim Gashi was found to have been paid £10,000 by the paper.
With this gag order in effect, and with many documents in the case still classified, much remains unknown about why the prosecution collapsed.
The private prosecution collapsed and at the time - the law has since been changed - the double-jeopardy rule left the men immune to future prosecution even if new evidence emerged.
The IPCC concluded that "on the balance of probabilities", police had passed on information about the Kennedy tapes to Ian Cunningham, the senior prosecutor in charge of the case, before the prosecution collapsed.
He was charged with a long list of felonies, but the prosecution collapsed when the Watergate scandal revealed that the Nixon White House had burglarized Mr. Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office to gain evidence against him.
But an attempt to bring a prosecution collapsed last autumn because of a much-criticised Scottish law that demands a second witness to corroborate crimes, even those committed in private.
But the prosecutions collapsed after the trial of the first 15 fell apart a year later, on 17 July 1985.
Wright never doubted the rightness of the violent defeat meted out to the miners, and when the prosecutions collapsed adamantly denied any malpractice.
Of course, he gambles that this haughty racist woman would not tolerate being intimately questioned by a black man on such matters; she storms out of the court and the prosecution case collapses.
In 2003, the prosecution finally collapsed, with a court finding all twenty-two defenotnts not guilty.
