Son of 1988 Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi loses appeal against his late dad's conviction
7 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the only person ever convicted over the terror attackCredit: PA Media The disaster - Britain's largest terror attack - killed 270 people including 11 Lockerbie locals killed by falling debris. Ex-Libyan intelligence officer Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years - the only person convicted of the atrocity. He was released from jail in 2009 on compassionate grounds while terminally ill with cancer and died in Libya in three years later. Top judges at the High Court in Edinburgh have now rejected an appeal ...