WORLD : Lawyer in Pan Am Inquiry Killed
The inquiry into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was adjourned today after a Scottish lawyer representing the families of 90 American victims was killed in a car crash.
“It’s like a curse that keeps following this thing,” said George Williams, whose 24-year-old son, Geordie, was one of the 270 victims of the plane crash over the nearby town of Lockerbie.
Lawyer Michael Hughes, 37, was working with U.S. attorney Lee S. Kreindler representing the American families.
The judge, Sheriff Principal John S. Mowat, postponed until Thursday the inquiry into the Dec. 21, 1988, disaster.
Hughes, who left a wife and five young children, was killed Monday evening on the M74 highway as he drove home to Glasgow, 70 miles north of Dumfries.
Police said an oncoming truck spun out of control, hit a van and plunged through the motorway’s central divider into Hughes’ car.
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