His brother Abdulhakim said on Sunday that Megrahi's health had deteriorated quickly and he died at home in Tripoli. Megrahi's sister told the Libyan Wal news agency that his funeral would take place at Tripoli's main cemetery on Monday, following early afternoon prayers. Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, always denied any responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight in December It remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil.
All people aboard the plane, which was travelling from London to New York, were killed, along with 11 others on the ground. Investigators tracing the origins of scraps of clothes wrapped around the bomb followed a trail to a shop in Malta which led them, eventually, to Megrahi. But Libya refused to extradite them. In , after protracted negotiations, Libya handed the two men over for trial, under Scottish law but on neutral ground, the former US airbase at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.
Their trial began in May Fhimah was acquitted of all charges, but Megrahi was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in prison.
He served the first part of his sentence at the maximum-security prison at Barlinnie, in Glasgow, but was transferred in to Greenock prison. He lost his first appeal against conviction in but in , his case was referred back to senior Scottish judges.
He dropped that second case two days before he was released. Government lawyers disagreed, submitting that the Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci, could not have been motivated by a possible reward as he was "not compensated".
A number of British victims' families have become increasingly convinced of Megrahi's innocence and have rejected the evidence provided by Gauci in particular. Last month, the United States unsealed charges against a third Libyan man suspected of assembling the bomb used in the attack. Megrahi's family have long insisted he was the "st victim" of Lockerbie, but Friday's ruling reinforced the original verdict that he was its perpetrator.
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Published: 23 Apr Two Libyans identified as Lockerbie bombing suspects. Scottish prosecutors believe two individuals were involved along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in attack on Pan Am flight Published: 16 Oct
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