More officers join Lockerbie inquiry

The police force investigating the Lockerbie bombing has increased the number of officers involved in the inquiry.

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary said the increase was in light of the regime change in Libya.

A total of 270 people were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie on 21 December, 1988. Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi is the only man convicted of the atrocity and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001.

He was released on compassionate grounds in August 2009 after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and returned to Libya.

A Crown Office spokesman said: “The transitional government has agreed to allow officers from Dumfries and Galloway Police to travel to Libya for inquiries into the involvement of others in the bombing”