Appeal against Lockerbie bomber’s conviction fails

Terminally ill Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was freed from prison on compassionate grounds in 2009. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA

The son of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has lost an appeal against his late father’s conviction.

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103, travelling from London to New York on December 21 1988, killed 270 people in Britain’s largest terrorist atrocity.