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The Libyan family convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, has appealed to the UK Supreme Court after Scottish judges dismissed a case of miscarriage of justice.

Son of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi LOSES appeal against his late father’s mass murder conviction https://t.co/8khBCkh64a

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) January 15, 2021

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi convicted of a 1988 bomb attack

The Edinburgh Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Megrahi was convicted of a 1988 bomb attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie that killed 270 passengers, crew and townspeople.

The court, chaired by Lord Carloway, Scotland’s chief judge, dismissed Megrahi’s family’s two grounds of appeal filed with the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, an agency that referred the alleged miscarriages of justice.

Megrahi died in her Tripoli home in 2012 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Aamer Anwar, the family’s lawyer said

Aamer Anwar, the family’s lawyer, said they would now take their case to the Supreme Court in London and continue to press for the UK government to release a secret document allegedly targeting Iran and a Palestinian terrorist group.

In November, it emerged that Foreign Minister Dominic Raab had confirmed a Public Interest Immunity Certificate holding back documents believed to have been sent by the then King of Jordan, a Jordanian secret service agent within the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. – The General Command (PFLP-GC) called Marwan Khreesat made the bomb.

In a statement, Anwar’s cabinet said: “Ali al-Megrahi, the son of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, said his family was broken by the Scottish courts’ decision. He has preserved his father’s innocence and is determined to keep his promise to clear his name and that of Libya. “”

The importance of the Megrahi family’s calling increased in December after William Barr, the outgoing United States attorney general, announced that he had charged Libyan compatriot Mohammed Abouagela Masud with allegedly making the bomb against Pan Am 103rd Masud would be all in Libyans. Prison and was named as Megrahi’s employee in the original charges against Megrahi, but was never officially involved in the bombing.

The last appeal was for two reasons. The first was that no sensible jury would have tried Megrahi on the evidence presented in court, particularly circumstantial evidence from Tony Gauci, a Maltese trader who claimed to have sold Megrahi clothes that had been put in the bomb case.

He also said the conviction was uncertain as prosecutors did not disclose evidence that cast serious doubt on the reliability of Gauci’s evidence and the information contained in the CIA cables.

On the opening day of the appeal, which was heard in November, Megrahi’s legal team used “cherry-picking” evidence against the judges who tried Megrahi in a special trial that was held 20 years ago without a jury.

“The court read a pattern or conclusion in a lot of conflicting evidence that was not really justified,” Claire Mitchell QC told the five appellate judges.