Libya's post-Qaddafi leaders signaled new flexibility in prosecuting the Libyan perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing and the killing of a London policewoman during the 1980s, telling a visiting British official that British investigators would soon be invited into the country to conduct inquiries, Britain said Thursday. Both the United States and...
LONDON -- Scotland's chief prosecutor has asked Libya's new government to assist in tracking down documentary evidence and witnesses for a possible new trial for those responsible for the Lockerbie airliner bombing. A statement issued Monday by a spokesman for Scotland's lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, said Britain's Foreign Office had been asked...
LONDON -- Television footage of the only man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing lying in bed, purportedly comatose with advanced prostate cancer at his Tripoli home, has provided a focal point for a question asked with new urgency in places far from Libya: With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government in ruins, what reckoning is likely for the...
Lockerbie er en lille by i det sydvestlige Skotland med 4.009 indbyggere (2001). Den er mest kendt for Lockerbie-sagen.
Den dominerende bygning i byen er rådhuset, som er et godt eksempel på skotsk baronistil. Den er bygget i lokal, rød sandsten. Ved siden af står et mindesmærke over de faldne i 2. verdenskrig.
Byen har i forhold til sin størrelse et godt udviklet transportnet. Den ligger ved vejen A47 og har en jernbanestation.