Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start
The trial of a Libyan man over the Lockerbie bombing has been postponed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago. Jury selection was due to get under way in Washington DC on Wednesday but the BBC understands a new start date has been set for […] The post Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start appeared first on The…
The trial of Libyan man Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has been postponed once again. Jury selection for the case, which was set to begin in Washington DC on Wednesday, has been rescheduled for January of the following year. This third postponement comes after new evidence emerged on August 21, previously unknown to both the defense and prosecutors from the US government.
Al-Marimi's lawyers stated that "constitutional and ethical obligations" compel them to investigate this development. The judge, Dabney Friedrich, agreed to the postponement due to the potential significance of the new evidence. The trial, already delayed multiple times over nearly four decades, may not reach a verdict until next spring.
The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people in December 1988, remains the deadliest terror attack in British history.
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