Judges reject Lockerbie bomber family’s bid to appeal to UK’s highest court

The Lockerbie bombing claimed 270 lives (PA)

Judges have refused the Lockerbie bomber’s family permission to take an appeal against his conviction to the UK’s highest court.

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.