Scottish prosecutors identify two new suspects in Lockerbie bombing
Two Libyans have been identified as new suspects over the Lockerbie bombing, according to various media reports.
Scottish prosecutors want to interview the two suspects over their possible involvement in the 1988 incident which killed 270 people.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the only person to have been convicted of the bombing but was released in 2009 on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in 2012 pleading his innocence.
Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC and US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, recently met in Washington to review progress made in the investigation.
They have since asked the Libyan authorities to give Scottish police and the FBI permission to interview the two named suspects.
"The Lord Advocate and the US Attorney General have recently agreed that there is a proper basis in law in Scotland and the United States to entitle Scottish and US investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects in the continuing investigation into the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie,” a Crown Office spokesman said, according to the BBC.
"The Lord Advocate has today, therefore, issued an International Letter of Request to the Libyan attorney general in Tripoli which identifies the two Libyans as suspects in the bombing of flight Pan Am 103.”