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Nick Lester

Copy of Lockerbie bombing suspect’s ‘confession’ admissible, rules US judge

Police officers at the scene in Lockerbie (PA) - (PA Archive)

A copy of an alleged confession by a Libyan man accused of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie almost 40 years ago can be used at his trial, a US judge has ruled.

Abu Agila Masud’s defence team had sought to exclude the statement taken in Libya by a police officer known as Jamal, as it was not the original document.

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