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Eight Lockerbie suspects were never investigated | At least eight suspects who may have been involved in the
December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that claimed 270 lives, have never been investigated because the Libyan government refusal to co-operate with Scottish police. The Scotsman has learned that the individuals emerged as
possible "high-level" suspects as part of the original inquiry into the bombing
following the atrocity. All eight are thought to be male and were never ruled
out of the investigation because Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi refused
to release them for questioning. The detail - never previously made public - came
as the Crown Office and police confirmed officers are reviewing the investigation
and are set to pursue several lines of inquiry into the bombing, focusing particularly
on others suspected of being involved. Prosecutors said Lockerbie was subject
to a further review because the only man convicted of the crime, Abdelbaset Ali
Mohmed al-Megrahi, had dropped his appeal. Megrahi, who is suffering from terminal
cancer, was allowed to return home to Libya in August this year after justice
secretary Kenny MacAskill released him on compassionate grounds. Stuart Henderson,
who spent four years leading the investigation, said officers investigating the
bombing identified the list of people in Libya, but they were never interviewed.
Henderson, a former detective chief superintendent with Lothian and Borders Police,
who led the Lockerbie incident control centre until 1992, told The Scotsman he
hoped the case review would allow officers to pursue the lines of inquiry opened
up by his team. |
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