Family appeals conviction in Lockerbie bombing in Scottish court
A lawyer for the family of the late Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, convicted in the 1988 plane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, argues there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
The family of the Libyan man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing presented their appeal case to British court Tuesday.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi’s family posthumously appealed his conviction in relation to the 1988 deadly plane bombing in Scotland’s High Court, Reuters reported.
Lockerbie is the Scottish town over which Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in 1988. All the 259 occupants, most of whom were Americans, perished. Eleven people in the town where the plane crashed also died. The flight was heading to New York from London.
Megrahi was a Libyan intelligence officer during the reign of Moammar Gadhafi. Megrahi was convicted of murder in relation the bombing in 2001. In 2009, he was released from prison for health reasons and returned to Libya, where he died in 2012.
