New Lockerbie facts promised

THE man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing said “new facts” surrounding the 1988 attack that killed 270 people would be announced in the coming months.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi said his role had been “exaggerated” and the truth about what happened would emerge soon.

Megrahi had been serving a life sentence when he was released from prison in August 2009 on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from terminal cancer.