One found guilty, one not guilty of Lockerbie bombing

Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was today found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, the biggest single act of mass murder in British history.

Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was today found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, the biggest single act of mass murder in British history.

But co-defendant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was found not guilty of the bombing.

Three Scottish judges delivered unanimous verdicts on the two men at the specially-constructed Scottish court at Camp Zeist in Holland.

The two Libyans were accused of causing the Lockerbie disaster and the mass murder of 270 passengers, crew and Lockerbie residents in the UK’s worst peacetime atrocity.

Relatives of the victims from around the world were in court to hear the verdicts after the judges - appointed in place of a jury - heard 84 days of evidence from 230 witnesses during the trial, which began last May.

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