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Heathrow remembers Lockerbie dead | Heathrow remembers Lockerbie dead |
(about 7 hours later) | |
A private memorial service has taken place at Heathrow Airport in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy. | |
Pan Am Flight 103 from Heathrow to New York exploded in the skies above the Scottish town on 21 December 1988. | Pan Am Flight 103 from Heathrow to New York exploded in the skies above the Scottish town on 21 December 1988. |
All 259 people on board were killed and a further 11 died on the ground below. | All 259 people on board were killed and a further 11 died on the ground below. |
Relatives and former Pan Am employees took part in the airport chapel service, led by Rev John Mosey, whose daughter Helga died in the atrocity. | |
Services were taking place at Lockerbie and in the US, including at New York State's Syracuse University, which lost 35 students in the bombing. | |
Some 500 people were also expected to attend a remembrance ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington DC. | |
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder following a trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands in 2001. | Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder following a trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands in 2001. |
Al Megrahi, who was recently diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, has consistently denied responsibility for the bombing and a second appeal against his conviction will be heard next year. | Al Megrahi, who was recently diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, has consistently denied responsibility for the bombing and a second appeal against his conviction will be heard next year. |
Among those due to give a reading at the Heathrow service was Dr Jim Swire, the Midlands GP who lost his daughter in the tragedy. | |
He is leading a campaign for the release of Al Megrahi. | He is leading a campaign for the release of Al Megrahi. |
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