Lockerbie bomber launches appeal
Updated on 28 April 2009
The Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people has launched a fresh appeal against his conviction.
It comes nearly two years after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission referred the case of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to the appeal court.
Megrahi, who has cancer, will not be present at the appeal in Edinburgh, which is expected to last four weeks.
A total of 270 people died when PanAm flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in 1988.
