The Lockerbie Case

A commentary on the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the murder of 270 people in the Pan Am 103 disaster.

Tuesday, 1 September 2026

US ‘confident’ postponed Lockerbie bombing trial will go ahead in new year

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[This is the headline over a PA News Agency report as published tonight on the Enfield Independent website. It reads in part:] US official...
Tuesday, 25 August 2026

US Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start

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[What follows is excerpted from a report published today on the BBC News website:] The trial of a Libyan man over the Lockerbie bombing ha...
Sunday, 23 August 2026

The origin of the Lockerbie bomb

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[This is the headline over a letter from Dr Jim Swire published in today's edition of The Sunday Times of Malta , following an article ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2026

"You proceed at your own peril" judge tells "slippery" prosecutors

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[What follows is excerpted from a report published today on the website of the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National :] The long-awai...
Sunday, 16 August 2026

Senior Maltese figures deny Malta link to Lockerbie bomb

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[What follows is excerpted from a report published in today's edition of The Times of Malta :] A popular Netflix series about the Locke...
Monday, 10 August 2026

US framing Libya to cover up something much darker?

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[What follows is excerpted from an article by Martin Jay entitled Lockerbie: Did the CIA itself take down Pan Am 103? published on his Sub...
Friday, 7 August 2026

Judge allows Lockerbie suspect's alleged confession to be used at US trial

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[This is the headline over a report published today on the BBC News website. It reads in part:] An alleged confession by a suspect in the ...
Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Netflix "The Bombing of Pan Am 103": Incomplete, one-sided portrayal

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[What follows is excerpted from an article by Patrick Huber published today on the Austrian Wings website:] In a six-part miniseries, the...
Thursday, 30 July 2026

Lockerbie trial brings fresh scrutiny of evidence against Libyan suspect

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[This is the headline over an article published yesterday in Libya Review . It reads as follows:] The upcoming US trial of Libyan national ...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026

BBC Scotland revisits Lockerbie bombing

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[What follows is the text of an item published today on The Highland Times website:] One of Scotland’s most enduring and controversial crim...
Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Lockerbie star witness accused of ‘yarns’

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[This is the headline over a report published in today's edition of the Daily Mail . It reads in part:] Lawyers for the Libyan accused ...
Sunday, 5 April 2026

Only truth, not revenge, allows us to heal and forgive

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[This is part of the headline over an article by Dr Jim Swire published in today's edition of Scotland on Sunday . A longer version of ...
Monday, 30 March 2026

Did Israel just settle Lockerbie’s oldest score?

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[ This is the headline over an article by barrister David Wolchover published today on the website of Jewish News . It reads in part:] As ...
Friday, 13 March 2026

Lockerbie, petition PE1370 and the continuing political debate

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[At a meeting held on 11 March 2026 the Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee kept open the Justice for Megrahi campaign’s petit...
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