New effort to clear ‘Lockerbie bomber’
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THE family of a Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing launched a new effort yesterday to posthumously clear his name.
Relatives of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi say he was wrongly convicted of the airliner bombing, which killed 270 people.
The family’s lawyer, Aamer Anwar, handed a dossier of evidence to the Glasgow offices of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which will decide whether to hand the case to an appeals court.
Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground. Many victims were American students flying home for Christmas.
Al-Megrahi lost one appeal and abandoned another before being freed in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He died of cancer in 2012, still protesting his innocence.
The latest appeal is supported by several relatives of Lockerbie victims, including Jim Swire, who lost his daughter Flora in the attack.
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