LOCKERBIE DISASTER 30YRS ON search, cry, search again hunt through debris
Secret agents bugged us, claim bereaved families
Lockerbie, describing her as the girl in the red dress who made his journey “such fun”.
Mark’s search party found her body on a hedge about eight miles from the cockpit.
He said: “I could see it was a child straight away, a little girl in a red outfit and I had to look away. I had a 10-month-old son at home.
“She was just lying in a hedge, face up, barely a scratch on her.
“The hedge was near an old farm building where another passenger had fallen in to the barn roof, still sitting in their passenger seat.
“I’d never seen a dead body before and after what I witnessed that night, I never want to see one again.
“As soon as we got close the cockpit you could tell it was a jumbo jet. Even although it had smashed down on its side it was huge.
“There were seven or eight bodies lying around outside. They just looked
MPS demand an inquiry after US intelligence suggests Iran was behind the bombing – not Libya. American officials play down the report. GRIEVING relatives of Lockerbie bomb victims say they were bugged by UK security services.
The claims emerged as previously classified files revealed state agents thought the families were too organised and “needed watching”.
The Rev John Mosey, whose daughter Helga, 19, was among those killed, said: “I could hear clicks on the phone. Also documents on Lockerbie like shop dummies. They didn’t have a mark on them. It seemed surreal. I later read that the pilot and engineer were still strapped in their seats.”
Mark says volunteers were told “not to gaze too long” at bodies and pause only to place a small pole with a flag in the ground to mark their location.
He said: “Bits of plane were everywhere, massive luggage containers had been ripped open like tin cans from the impact and there were suitcases
Megrahi is convicted of mass murder. Fhimah is found not guilty were vanishing off my computer. I got an expert to check. The verdict was that I was being listened to. It’s clear we were considered to be mischief.”
Dr Jim Swire, who campaigned for justice for the families after his daughter Flora, 23, died in the outrage, said he too was targeted.
He claims two security services agents posing as journalists paid him a visit. “They asked to
and Christmas presents lying around still wrapped.
“It sounds trivial but I remember those presents so well. . There was cutlery and cups that hadn’t n’t smashed and people still strapped d in their airline seats as if they had d taken a pause in their journey.
“It was very soft peat t and you could see the impact marks where people had landed. d.
One man was sitting up-
UN lifts sanctions on Libya after Tripoli accepts the blame and compensates families of the victims. meet me in countryside near Cambridge soon after I began making media statements,” he said.
“They made me feel quite uneasy, almost scared, but seemed satisfied with what I said.”
UN inspector Dr Hans Koechler, an independent observer at the trial of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-megrahi, said: “I had similar experiences after my first report on the hearing.”
right in the field. I couldn’t bring myself to look at his face. I couldn’t look at any of their faces.
“There was w a lady lying near a baby wh who looked just like a doll. You c could see where her body had impacted in the peat but she s looked like she had moved towards the child, although I realise that was impossible. impo
“We were all will-
Megrahi is freed after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Returns home to Tripoli to cheering crowds. He dies in 2012.
ing for someone to be found alive. The further we got from the cockpit the worse it got. Clothes had been ripped from bodies and people lay naked in fields. After a while it was clear we wouldn’t find anyone alive.”
Brother-in-law Brian, who still lives in Lockerbie, says he has never been the same since.
“It’s hard to talk about but what I saw has stayed with me,” he said.
Authorities say they are investigating two more suspects linked to Libya.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission says there was no criminality in the Megrahi case.