The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part BBC One true-crime drama, has arrived on Netflix. It revisits the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people and follows efforts by teams on both sides of the Atlantic to find out what happened and bring those responsible to justice.
Who was convicted over Lockerbie?
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi remains the only person convicted over the bombing. He was found guilty in 2001 at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands and jailed for life with a minimum of 27 years. He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 with terminal prostate cancer and died in Libya in 2012.
Libya's former justice minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil claimed Colonel Gaddafi ordered the attack, telling Swedish newspaper Expressen in 2011: "To hide it, he [Gaddafi] did everything in his power to get al-Megrahi back from Scotland." In 2003, Gaddafi accepted Libya's responsibility and paid compensation to victims' families.
New suspect and possible motive
A new suspect, Libyan national Abu Agila Mas'ud, is alleged to have helped make the bomb. His trial in Washington has been delayed due to legal submissions from both prosecution and defence.
The 270 victims included 190 American passengers, and it has been speculated that the attack was retaliation against the USA for bombing Libya's capital Tripoli in 1986, which resulted in the death of Gaddafi's infant daughter.
Second Lockerbie drama this year
This is the second TV drama about Lockerbie this year, following Sky's series starring Colin Firth based on Dr Jim Swire's search for truth about his daughter Flora's death. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 stars Connor Swindells as Scottish police officer Ed McCusker and Patrick J. Adams as FBI Special Agent Dick Marquise.
