Lockerbie bomber ‘could travel to Malta without a passport’

ABDELBASET al Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, was able to travel between Libya and Malta without identification or passport.

While working for Libyan Arab Airlines he was able to travel without documentation as a ‘route checker’ and used to visit a lover on the island.

The Libyan, who was jailed for life following the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, but released on compassionate grounds in August 2009, made the revelations to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.

However, when he flew to Malta on 20 December, when he is alleged to have planted the bomb that eventually exploded over Lockerbie, he did use his passport.

The 59-year-old reportedly told the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission: “As a Libyan Arab Airlines employee and as someone well known, both at Tripoli airport and at the airport in Malta.

“I could get away with not using a passport or an identification card at all, but simply by wearing my Libyan Arab Airlines uniform.

“This may sound ridiculous but it is true.

“If I wanted to do something clandestine in such a way that there would be absolutely no record at all of me going from Tripoli to Malta and back again, I could do it.”