Search for the truth continues

THIRTY years on from the Lockerbie disaster – the single biggest terror attack on British soil – the physical scars are gone from the town.

But the many people affected by this attack, on the ground and in the air, have not achieved proper justice or really had the answers to who was responsible for the atrocity.

There are too many questions, too many doubts over the prosecution of Libyan Abdelbaset al Megrahi to close the book on the bombing.

Although Gaddafi’s Libyan regime shouldered the blame and stood in the dock for the attack, now – for the first time – a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command has admitted responsibility.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the finger of blame was pointed at Palestinians who were allegedly acting under orders from the Iranian regime in revenge for the shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet by US forces just five months previously.

But international politics shifted and so did the trail of evidence that led to the trial of Megrahi and his imprisonment in a Scottish jail.

Megrahi is now dead but his son tells us the fight to clear his father’s name will continue. So too will the search for justice in the name of the many victims of the Lockerbie bombing.