Search for Lockerbie accomplices to continue

THE chief constable of the police force investigating the Lockerbie atrocity said yesterday they would continue to search for the convicted bomber’s accomplices.

Dumfries and Galloway Police Chief Constable Patrick Shearer said officers are following new lines of inquiry after Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi’s dropped his appeal against conviction.

The former Libyan intelligence officer was found guilty of murdering 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the town of Lockerbie in December 1988. Suffering from terminal cancer, he was freed in August on compassionate grounds.