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As the anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing approaches and a new suspect appears in a US court, we examine the lasting effect of the atrocity
The search for justice over the Lockerbie bombing goes on – and William Barr’s actions are unlikely to help Kim Sengupta © Provided by The Independent With great fanfare, on the anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, the US has announced charges against the supposed bomb maker who blew up Pan Am flight 103, the worst act of terrorism in this country, with 270 lives lost. One of William Barr’s final acts as Donald Trump’s Attorney General, a deeply controversial tenure, is supposed to fit one of the final pieces of the jigsaw in the hunt for the killers. There ar...
Updated: December 17, 2020, 2:27 pm The Lockerbie disaster in December 1988 claimed 270 victims. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up It was at just after 7pm on Wednesday, December 21 1988 when life changed irrevocably for the people of Lockerbie and the passengers and crew of Pan Am Flight 103 whose fates collided with devastating consequences. Yet even now, more than 30 years later, the sights and sounds and the tear-stained, u...