Lockerbie prisoner can appeal
Updated on 28 June 2007
Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi, found guilty in 2001 of the Lockerbie bombing, wins the right to an appeal.
It remains the most lethal terrorist attack ever carried out in Britain, and the trial of those accused of carrying it out is still the most expensive ever conducted here.
Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 for the murder of 270 people when a PanAm jumbo jet exploded over the Scottish town.
He has always maintained he is innocent. Now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission says "a miscarriage of justice may have ocurred".
