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Lockerbie plane bombing

November 2023

  • Lorraine Kelly with Kim Wickham, Renée Boulanger and Colin Dorrance.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Lorraine Kelly’s highly emotional return to Lockerbie

    The presenter revisits the residents she spoke to in 1988 after Pan Am flight 103 was bombed. Plus: Alan Davies launches David Mitchell through the air. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2022

  • Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela outside 10 Downing Street in July 1997

    Blair government had misgivings about Mandela mediation role over Lockerbie

  • Abdullah al-Senussi in 2011.

    Revealed: Libya aborted plan to hand Gaddafi spy chief to US at last minute

  • The nose cone of Pan Am flight 103 near Lockerbie, after a bomb killed 270 people on board in 1988

    US accused of illegal abduction of Lockerbie bomb suspect from Libya

  • Mohammed Abouajela Masud

    Libyan PM admits government role in sending Lockerbie bomb suspect to US

  • Libya opens inquiry into alleged abduction of Lockerbie bomb suspect

  • Abduction of Lockerbie bomb suspect ‘agreed with US three months ago’

  • Lockerbie bomb suspect in US custody was ‘abducted from home’ by warlord

  • Lockerbie plane bombing: what happened and who is the third suspect?

  • Third Lockerbie bomb suspect now in US custody, officials say

November 2021

  • Libya’s foreign minister, Najla El Mangoush

    Libya’s PM and president in dispute over foreign minister’s suspension

    Row deepens as Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh dismisses president’s decision to suspend Najla El-Mangoush

July 2021

  • Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela outside No 10 Downing Street on 10 July 1997.

    Tony Blair urged Nelson Mandela not to discuss Lockerbie trial, papers show

    Blair wrote to then South African leader in 1997 after aides said raising issue at summit in Scotland would be ‘pretty disastrous’

January 2021

  • FILES-BRITAIN-LIBYA-LOCKERBIE-MEGRAHI-APPEAL<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 18, 1992 convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (C) is escorted by security officers. - Five judges at Scotland’s highest court of criminal appeal on January 15, 2021 issue their ruling in a posthumous appeal by the family of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbased Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi. (Photo by MANOOCHER DEGHATI / FILES / AFP) (Photo by MANOOCHER DEGHATI/FILES/AFP via Getty Images)

    Megrahi family to appeal to UK supreme court over Lockerbie conviction

    Scottish court of appeal rules Libyan was properly convicted of 1988 bombing of passenger plane

December 2020

  • FILES-BRITAIN-SCOTLAND-LIBYA-COURT-LOCKERBIE<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 22, 1988 Policemen look at the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. The flight was on route for New York with 259 passengers on board. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed as well as 11 Lockerbie residents. - A posthumous legal challenge to overturn the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Mohmet Al-Megrahi is due to begin in Scotland on November 24, 2020. Megrahi was the only person convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which was blown up as it travelled from London to New York over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988. A total of 270 people from 21 countries were killed -- 243 passengers, 16 crew, and 11 people on the ground -- in what remains Britain’s biggest terrorist attack. (Photo by ROY LETKEY / AFP) (Photo by ROY LETKEY/AFP via Getty Images)

    US set to announce new charges over Lockerbie plane bombing

    Attorney general William Barr expected to confirm that US has indicted Mohammed Abouagela Masud

November 2020

  • Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, left, and right, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi

    Lockerbie: court urged to use diaries to uphold Megrahi's conviction

  • The remains of Pan Am flight 103

    Lockerbie bombing: court 'should have been told witness wanted payment'

  • Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in 2009.

    Lockerbie bombing: facts 'cherrypicked' to convict Megrahi, court told

  • Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi in 1992. He was convicted in 2001.

    Scottish judges rule Lockerbie documents will remain secret

June 2020

  • Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for downing a US passenger jet that killed 270 people over Lockerbie.

    Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi lawyers seek to quash conviction

    Family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – Libyan man who has since died – lodge appeal over possible miscarriage of justice

March 2020

  • Kenan Malik

    Will we finally discover the truth about Lockerbie?

    Kenan Malik
    More than 30 years after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded, justice might be properly served with the reopening of the court case
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