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image captionAbdelbaset al-Megrahi died in 2012 but his family pursued the posthumous appeal
Scottish judges have rejected a third appeal on behalf of the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who died in 2012, argued that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
But the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld the verdict of the original trial, which took place at special Scottish court in the Netherlands in 2001.
Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted over the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988.
All 259 passengers and crew on board the flight were killed, along with 11 people in Lockerbie who died when the wreckage fell onto their homes.
With US Attorney General Bill Barr seeking the extradition of a suspected bombmaker from Libya, we take a look at the search for answers behind an international tragedy They were going home to a Christmas they would never see. Just 38 minutes after the plane had taken off, as it prepared to wheel to port and head out over the Atlantic, an explosion ripped through a forward hold of the Boeing 747. It was two minutes and 50 seconds past 7pm on the evening of December 21, 1988. A recovered voice recorder would reveal a 180-millisecond hissing noise before Pan Am 103’s communications centre was destroyed.
Lockerbie bombing: New suspect soon to be charged - US media
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image captionA total of 270 people died in the Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988
The US will soon announce charges against a Libyan suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, US media say.
Prosecutors will soon seek the extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Masud to stand trial in the US, reports say.
He is currently being held in Libya, according to the Wall Street Journal. This has not been confirmed by the Libyan authorities.
The blast on board a Boeing 747 over the Scottish town left 270 people dead.