THE man suspected of being the Lockerbie bombmaker, who is detained in the US, is not currently facing criminal proceedings in Scotland, the Lord Advocate has said.
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi appeared in a federal court in Washington on Monday accused of building the bomb that downed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people.
Scotland’s top law officer Dorothy Bain KC told MSPs in Holyrood that the arrest of Mas’ud from Libya had been “lawful”.
