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A suspect in the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988 is due to appear in a court in Washington DC.
A new suspect in the Lockerbie bombing could soon face charges in the United States, according to media reports. It’s thought that US prosecutors are trying to seek the extradition of a Libyan man suspected of making the bomb which blew up the Pan Am passenger jet in 1988, leaving 270 people dead. From Washington,…
Relatives of victims of the Lockerbie bombing have claimed over the years that their phones and correspondence were being monitored by the secret services. Now previously classified government files appear to confirm their suspicions. The files reveal the Thatcher administration was warned that the families were becoming increasingly organised and should be put under observation. We speak to…
Libya confirms the names of two men Scottish and US prosecutors want to interview about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iranian officials in retaliation for the US shooting down one of its civilian aircraft, a high level defector claims.
The victims of the Lockerbie plane bombing are being remembered on the 25th anniversary of the atrocity.
New documents reveal that both high-level Syrian officials and the CIA independently stated that a Syrian-based Palestinian group, not Libya, was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.
Prime Minister David Cameron rejects calls for a new investigation into the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in the wake of his death.
Reports say that Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing has died of cancer at the age of 60.
The man convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has reportedly been found in an unconscious state in Tripoli, clinging to life by an oxygen and fluid drip.
Jon Snow
Diaries from the Lockerbie bomb investigation “make a blistering allegation”, blogs Jon Snow, who asks why the apparent “dynamite revelations” from the case have not been uncovered before now.
Police investigating the Lockerbie bombing have met Libyan defector Moussa Koussa, as a man whose home was damaged in 1988 tells Channel 4 News he is “surprised but pleased” at the development.
The father of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing has told Channel 4 News he is calling for international investigators to start collecting potential evidence on the attack from Libya.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon looks at Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell’s report on the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
New documents published today show that the previous Labour government did “all it could” to help Libya secure the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.