The family of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi is launching a fresh effort to posthumously clear his name. Lawyer Aamer Anwar will be handing a dossier of evidence to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) as soon as this week. The commission will decide whether to hand the case to an appeals court. Al-Megrahi was convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. The bomb shattered the New York-bound Boeing 747, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. Many victims were American college students flying home for Christmas. Al-Megrahi lost one appeal and abandoned another before being freed in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He died of cancer in 2012, still protesting his innocence. He is the only person to have been found guilty of Britain's worst act of terrorism. The Libyan's widow Aisha and his son Ali met recently Anwar. Relatives of some of the victims — led by Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died on Pan-Am Flight 103 — have already attempted to appeal against the conviction of Megrahi. The families had argued they should have the right to carry forward the miscarriage of justice appeal for Megrahi. However, three judges at the appeal court in Edinburgh ruled in July 2015 that this would not be possible under Scots law. The families' action was not supported by the Victims Of Pan AM Flight 103 group in the United States, which said there was "nothing new" in the appeal. — Agencies
