Lockerbie Bomber’s Conviction Can Be Appealed Again, Panel Finds
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, center, is escorted to court for a hearing in Tripoli in Feb. 1992.
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The only person found guilty for the bombing of an American airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 can have his conviction appealed posthumously, according to a decision by a legal review panel.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, or SCCRC, decided in May 2018 to review the case because it said Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi abandoned his appeal because he believed it would secure his release from prison and help him return to Libya.