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Lockerbie bombing appeal begins
23/01/2002
The appeal by Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi against
his conviction for the Lockerbie bombing begins today at
the special Scottish Court in the Netherlands.
Five senior judges will hear the appeal at Camp van
Zeist near Utrecht.
Megrahi, a Libyan national, was found guilty last
January of the murder of 270 people by placing a bomb on
board Pan Am Flight 103 which was en route to New York when
it blew up over Lockerbie in December 1988. His co-accused
Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah was acquitted.
The appeal judges are Lord Cullen, Lord Justice
General, Lord Kirkwood, Lord Osborne, Lord Macfadyen,
and Lord Nimmo Smith.
The original guilty verdict was returned unanimously be
a panel of three judges sitting without a jury. They were
Lord Sutherland, Lord Coulsland and Lord Maclean.