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Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi s posthumous appeal rejected by Scottish judges Five Scottish judges have upheld the 2001 verdict against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. Last week s decision is the second time an appeal on Megrahi s behalf has been rejected by the courts amid the continued suppression of contradictory evidence. In 2002, an initial appeal was thrown out. In 2009, Megrahi, already terminally ill, was tacitly offered release from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds if a contemporary appeal was dropped as part of rapprochement between the Libyan and British governments. The most recent appeal was launched by Megrahi s son, Ali Al-Megrahi, to clear his father s name posthumously. ....