PlayNew doubts over Lockerbie bombing
Published: Thursday, 28 August 2008, 11:14PM
An exclusive News at Ten interview has cast new doubt on who was to blame for the Lockerbie bombing.
A witness who helped convict a Libyan secret service agent of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 has now changed his story.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing that killed 270 people, including 11 residents of the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
But electronics engineer Ulrich Lumpert says what he told the trial about the timing device said to have detonated the explosives was wrong.
A key part of the evidence in the case was a singed fragment of a timer traced to Swiss company Mebo, where Mr Lumpert worked.
Mebo admitted selling timers to Libya but Mr Lumpert now claims the fragment found was part of a non-functional timer that could not possibly have helped to bring down Pan Am 103.
Mr Lumpert now says the bombing could not have happened in the way prosecutors described it, leaving more questions unanswered about the Lockerbie bombing.
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