Lockerbie Investigation 8 suspects never seen

Stuart Henderson, a former detective chief superintendent who headed the Lockerbie investigation has revealed that eight potential suspects were identified at the time of the original investigation but were never interviewed.

Although the Lockerbie investigation has never been formally closed there was little evidence until recently that it was stil active. For the victims' families, the news that the Scottish authorities are reassessing the evidence will be welcome although some are worried that the police investigation into the atrocity is being publicly freshened up in an attempt to thwart demands for a full public inquiry.More than two decades have passed since Britain's worst terrorist attack but the relatives of those who died in the Lockerbie bombing remain united by a single common goal: the truth.

The focus of the renewed investigation is a search for any new evidence which might point to the accomplices of Libyan Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 of the murder of 270 people and recently freed on compassionate grounds. Fresh forensic tests are to be carried out and 'several potential lines of inquiry' examined.

Christine Grahame MSP has criticised the move to renew the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing claiming it will prevent a public inquiry and stop new evidence being heard.

Libya's Col Gaddafi has told Sky News it is none of his concern who carried out the Lockerbie bombing, as police re-examine the case.