On January 30, former Libyan intelligence agent…
January 2001 CE
On January 30, former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi, 48, one of two Libyans accused of murdering 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is found guilty of murder.
The second defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, 44, is found not guilty.
The Pan Am Boeing 747 aircraft blew up above the Scottish town on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 passengers and crew, and 11 people on the ground.
Al-Megrahi and Fhimah had pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
The trial, held at the Camp Zeist former U.S. air base in the Netherlands, was conducted under Scottish law and presided over by a panel of three Scottish judges.
Al-Megrahi faces life imprisonment in a special cell that has been built in Glasgow, Scotland.
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