Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start - BBC News

The trial of a Libyan man is delayed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down on 21 December 1988

Scotland home affairs correspondentPublished24 August 2026Updated 3 hours agoThe trial of a Libyan man over the Lockerbie bombing has been postponed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago.

Jury selection was due to get under way in Washington DC on Wednesday but the BBC understands a new start date has been set for January next year.

Lawyers acting for Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi said "newly discovered evidence" previously unknown to the defence and prosecutors from the US government emerged on Friday 21 August.

Al-Marimi has denied building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988, killing 270 people.