Appeal into Lockerbie bomb conviction begins

AN APPEAL into the conviction of a Libyan man jailed for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie got under way in a packed courtroom yesterday.

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, who is terminally ill with prostate cancer, has spent 10 years behind bars for the terrorist attack that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.

The appeal is being heard by five judges at the High Court in Edinburgh.