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Lockerbie bombing case reopened |
UK authorities have launched
a fresh investigation into the Lockerbie bombing, which includes a review of all
the forensic evidence available. In an email sent by the Crown Office, Scotland
's prosecuting authority informed the British relatives of victims that detectives
in Scotland are working with forensic scientists to try to build a case against
those involved in the 1988 atrocity, the Telegraph reports. "Throughout the investigation
we have, at various times, taken stock of the evidence as a whole with a view
to identifying further lines of inquiry that can be pursued," Lindsey Miller,
a senior Procurator Fiscal who was involved in preparing evidence for Megrahi's
trial, said. "Now that the appeal proceedings are at an end a further review of
the case is under way and several potential lines of inquiry, both through a 'desktop'
exercise and consultation with forensic science colleagues are being considered."
Detectives are re-examining all the evidence after Lockerbie bombing-accused,
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, decided to drop his appeal against his conviction
for mass murder. Megrahi had abandoned his appeal as part of an apparent deal
that saw him sent home to Libya to die. The investigation is said to be headed
by Detective Chief Inspector Michael Dalgleish, a senior officer who was part
of the team that brought the case against Megrahi. Earlier, families had sent
a letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown demanding the Government to hold
an inquiry into the bombing, in which 270 people were murdered. The decision to
re-launch the case has been welcomed by families in search of the truth about
what happened when Pan Am flight 103 exploded 40 minutes after take-off above
Lockerbie. Pam Dix, whose brother Peter died in the explosion, said: "This new
investigation gives us new hope. It has to be right that police don't see this
as concluded. "Even if Megrahi was guilty, he could not possibly have carried
out the bombing unaided and if he is not guilty then not a single one of the conspirators
of the Lockerie bombing have been brought to justice." |
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