An author claims to have vindicated the Lockerbie bomber by uncovering the “truth” behind the device that exploded over the town 25 years ago.
A new book explores the details of baggage transfers, concluding that the bomb originated at Heathrow, not in Malta.
The 250-page book was written by Dr Morag Kerr, a member of the Justice for Megrahi Committee which wants a new independent inquiry into the conviction of the only man found guilty of the atrocity.
“Heathrow was indeed the scene of the crime,” she claims. “There is irrefutable evidence the bomb was in a suitcase seen at Heathrow before the feeder flight from Frankfurt landed.
“Megrahi was nowhere near the place at the time and could not possibly have had anything to do with it.
“The Lockerbie investigation was horrifically bungled thanks to stupidity, carelessness and tunnel vision.
“The police made a fatal error in 1989 and eliminated Heathrow on a false assumption.”
She based her findings on statements, reports and photographs, some previously not available to the public.
The book, called Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage And Lies, suggests Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was innocent, according to Dr Kerr, 60, from Peeblesshire.
She questions the chain of events agreed by a special Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands, and claims to have pinpointed a mystery suitcase at the location of the blast on the aeroplane.
Megrahi was tried in 2000 and found guilty and sentenced to 27 years.
He was released from Greenock prison in 2009 on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
He died in 2012.