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Victims families warn against US trial for new Lockerbie bombing suspect

Victims families warn against US trial for new Lockerbie bombing suspect US Justice Department expected to announce charges on 32nd anniversary of bombing on Monday 17 December 2020 • 7:13pm Policemen look at the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland Credit: ROY LETKEY/AFP via Getty Images/ROY LETKEY/AFP via Getty Images The suspect in the Lockerbie bombing set to face new US charges should stand trial not in America but in Scotland or the International Criminal Court, relatives of the terror attack’s victims have told The Telegraph.  Two family members of people who died in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the deadliest terror attack in modern British history, expressed concern that the suspect could be executed if put on trial in America.

32 Years Later, New Charges to Come in Lockerbie Attack

US Justice Department to Unseal Charges Against New Suspect in 1988 Lockerbie Plane Bombing - Report

US Justice Department to Unseal Charges Against New Suspect in 1988 Lockerbie Plane Bombing - Report © AP Photo / Martin Cleaver, File https://sputniknews.com/us/202012171081485164-us-justice-department-to-unseal-charges-against-new-suspect-in-1988-lockerbie-plane-bombing / The December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 individuals, including 190 Americans, when a device planted inside a cassette player exploded and saw the Boeing 727 disintegrate over Lockerbie, Scotland, less than an hour after takeoff from London’s Heathrow Airport. This coming Monday marks the 32nd anniversary of the incident. Prosecutors with the US Department of Justice are expected to unseal charges in the coming days against a suspect they believed played a pivotal role in the 1988 bombing, according to sources familiar with the development. 

US set to announce new charges over Lockerbie plane bombing

US set to announce new charges over Lockerbie plane bombing Severin Carrell Scotland editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Roy Letkey/AFP/Getty Images US authorities are expected to unseal charges against a Libyan they accuse of being the master bomb-maker behind the Lockerbie bombing, only days before the anniversary of the terror attack. William Barr, the outgoing US attorney general, is expected to confirm publicly within days that the US has indicted a former Libyan intelligence officer, Mohammed Abouagela Masud, accusing him of completing the device which blew up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland on 21 December 1988. The bomb killed all 259 people on the flight, mostly Americans returning home for the Christmas holidays. A large section of the plane’s fuselage fell on the Scottish town of Lockerbie, destroying homes and killing 11 townspeople. Debris was spread over a large area of the surrounding countryside.

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