The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws

A tale of three atrocities
Megrahi: An innocent incarcerated
Introduction
On Wednesday 21 st December 1988, nine months before my brother's death, Pan Am Flight 103 was
destroyed in a bomb attack and the downed plane fell on Lockerbie, a town of around 4,000 people in
the Dumfries and Galloway Region, south-west Scotland. The plane's 243 passengers and 16
members of the crew died in the explosion, along with 11 people from Lockerbie who perished when
large sections of the plane fell on the town.
It was some time after my brother's death that I started thinking about Lockerbie. I had been absorbed
in putting his affairs in order following his spectacularly horrible death. There were so many small
things to do. When someone dies suddenly - it's like shutting many drawers left open.
I joined the Lockerbie families group within 24 hours of UTA because Jim Swire – a leading light in the
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