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Al-Megrahi family 'devastated' as Lockerbie appeal court judges uphold conviction

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.An appeal by the family of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to clear his name over the 1988 atrocity has been refused by judges.The Court of Criminal Appeal in Scotland announced on Friday it has upheld the verdict of the original trial court and rejected both grounds of the family’s appeal.The bombing of Pan Am flight 103, travelling from London to New York on December 21, 1988, killed 270 people in Britain’s largest terrorist atrocity.Judges last month heard arguments from lawyers representing the former Libyan intelligence officer, who died in 2012.Aamer Anwar, the Megrahi family’s lawyer, said he’d been instructed by his.

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