Lockerbie bomb suspect to face trial in May 2025
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Scotland’s most senior lawyer has welcomed a trial date being set for the man suspected of building the bomb that brought down a plane over Lockerbie in 1988 as she paid tribute to the victims.
Dorothy Bain KC, the lord advocate, said: “For 35 years now the families of the 270 people murdered on the night of December 21, 1988, have borne their losses with huge dignity and my thoughts are with them.”
Abu Agila Masud, 72, from Libya, is to go on trial in the United States on May 12, 2025, facing three charges, which he denies.
Abu Agila Masud was handed over to the US authorities by Libya in 2020
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The trial date was set on the same day as a Scottish memorial service marking 35 years since the bombing paid tribute to the 270 people who