DNA Retrieved From Suitcasemay Solve Lockerbie Bombing Riddle

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Investigators have made a potential breakthrough in the Lockerbie battle case after discovering DNA proof from the suitcase used to bring the explosive.

Investigators have actually made a prospective development in the Lockerbie battle case after discovering DNA evidence from the travel suitcase used to carry the dynamite.


Scientists are reported to have collected genetic profiles from the travel suitcase lining and an umbrella loaded into the luggage compartment of the doomed Pan Am Flight 103 after re-examining items restored from the wreckage in December 1988.


Prosecutors now hope to have the ability to link the profile to declared bomb-maker Abu Agila Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, known as Masud, who is waiting to go on trial in the US, with the DNA to be compared to swabs drawn from the suspect.


The Libyan, who is implicated of playing a major role in what remains the UK's worst terror atrocity that killed 270 individuals, was because of deal with a jury last month but the trial was postponed as a result of his bad health and the intricacy of the case.


It is now not expected to start till next spring.


The Sunday Times has reported that US court documents recognize a list of specialist witnesses for the prosecution, consisting of Dr Nighean Stevenson, a leading authority in DNA analysis at the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), who has actually re-examined displays from the crash site more than thirty years back.


The papers state: 'Dr Stevenson analyzed products associating with an umbrella and a product relating to the lining of a travel suitcase.


'These products were examined utilizing specialised lighting, and DNA samples were taken from each.


Part of the wreckage of a guest jet that came down on Lockerbie in December 1988


Alleged bomb-maker Abu Agila Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, referred to as Masud, is waiting to go on trial in the US


The scenes of destruction in the wake of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988


'The DNA profiles obtained from these products were of varying quality and were usually commensurate with the expectations of these items.'


They include: 'Analysis of a DNA recommendation sample relating to the implicated nominal [Masud] has yet to be performed.


'When a DNA profile connecting to this individual has been created, it will afterwards be compared to any suitable DNA profiles which have actually already been gotten.'


Masud, 74, is implicated of making the bomb which lowered Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, on December 21, 1988.


All 259 guests and crew on board were eliminated along with 11 residents in the town when wreckage was up to the ground.


Masud, a bomb-maker for the Libyan External Security Organisation, was extradited to the US at the end of 2022 after supposedly confessing to building the Lockerbie bomb and taking it in a suitcase from Tripoli to Malta.

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