Lockerbie Case Appeal to Focus on New Evidence
Evidence from a former security guard that emerged since trial will be central to the appeal by a Libyan who was convicted in the 1988 blast aboard a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attorney said.
The lawyer for Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, sentenced to life in prison for killing 270 people in the bombing, told a pre-appeal hearing that the security guard gave a statement to police in 1989 but it was never passed on to prosecutors.
Recent media reports have cited a former security guard at London’s Heathrow Airport who said a luggage bay was broken into just hours before New York-bound Flight 103 took off.
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