Scottish prosecutors claim to have identified 2 Libyans as Lockerbie suspects
Scottish prosecutors say they have identified two new Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a passenger Pan Am flight over the town of Lockerbie.
The prosecutors have made a formal request to Libyan authorities to allow American and Scottish detectives to interview the suspects in Tripoli.
“Scottish and US prosecutors agreed that there is a proper basis in law in Scotland and the United States to entitle Scottish and US investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects”, a government statement said.
According to the statement, the two Libyans were allegedly involved, along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi - the only person to have been convicted of the Pan Am bombing.
A bomb ripped through the New York-bound Boeing 747 over Scotland’s Lockerbie leaving 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground dead. Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas.
Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, was convicted in 2001 of planting the bomb. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison but was freed from a Scottish jail in 2009 on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in 2012, protesting his innocence.
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