A FRESH bid to clear the name of the man convicted of the UK’s worst terrorist attack has been lodged.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only man ever convicted over the Lockerbie bombing. A total of 270 people died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, with many more lives destroyed by the atrocity.
Al-Megrahi, from Libya, denied involvement even after his conviction at a specially convened Scottish court in the Netherlands. He was released from prison in Greenock in 2009 on compassionate grounds after developing terminal cancer and died in Tripoli three years later.
Supporters maintain he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. It has been claimed that Iran may have been behind the attack.
Earlier this year the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission said a miscarriage of justice may have taken place and “it is in the interests of justice to refer the case to the High Court”. Yesterday his family announced a formal appeal has been lodged with the High Court of Justiciary against his conviction.
Five senior judges are expected to hear the case later this year.
Aamer Anwar, lawyer for the family, said: “The appeal grounds we have lodged with the court are ‘substantial’.”
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