Megrahi death: Spotlight on top officials in Gaddafi regime

Other suspects who have previously been named as possibly having knowledge vital to the Lockerbie bombing case include top officials in Muammar al-Gaddafi’s toppled regime.

Moussa Koussa, a former intelligence chief and diplomat, was foreign minsiter under Gaddafi until he resigned in March 2011 during the civil war. He was seen as instrumental in getting Megrahi released from prison and returned to Libya. Scottish prosecutors interviewed Koussa about the Lockerbie bombing when he travelled to England after his defection. He later moved to Qatar.

Abdallah Sanussi, Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and head of the intelligence services, was Megrahi’s immediate boss. He has previously been blamed for killings in Benghazi during the civil war as well as recruiting mercenaries. In 1999 he was convicted in absentia in France for the 1989 bombing of a plane over Niger.

Izz Aldin Hinshiri, a former government minister, was suspected of buying the trigger for the Lockerbie bomber, but has been reported as possibly killed during the uprising.