A Scottish priest who served in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, at the time a Pan Am airliner was blown out of the sky by terrorists has appealed to American families who lost loved ones to back calls for a comprehensive inquiry.
F Patrick Keegans, of the Diocese of Galloway, has written an open letter to families of US victims seeking their support for a fresh investigation into the December 21 1988 attack on Pan Am Flight 103, which killed everyone on board and 11 people on the ground.
The letter follows a 1500-signature petition handed in to MSPs in October, which called on the Scottish Government to open an independent inquiry into the conviction of Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the only person so far convicted of the bombing.
