The Lockerbie bomber wrote an impassioned plea for help while locked up in one of Britain’s toughest jails - and blamed his alleged accomplice for the atrocity
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Megrahi wrote: “I have to write because of the great suffering condemned to imprisonment for false accusation. I am an Arabic Libyan unfairly convicted in the case of what is called Lockerbie. It was a false accusation based on the allegation I was the suspect who bought the clothes from a storekeeper in Malta.
In December, the US Department of Justice named Fhimah as an accomplice following the arrest of a former Libyan intelligence officer who stands accused of making the Lockerbie bomb. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, 71, awaits trial in the US after he was allegedly directed by a Libyan intelligence official to fly to Malta with a prepared suitcase. He was met by Megrahi and Fhimah at the airport, say prosecutors.
In 2012, the Scottish Crown Office requested a private legal hearing in Malta regarding possible prosecutions in the Lockerbie case.
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