Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi: profile of the Lockerbie bomber

Since 1991, when he was first named as a suspect in the airline bombing, he has striven to portray himself as an ordinary, family man, wrongly accused of killing 270 innocent people.

Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years after being convicted in 2001 of bombing Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 killing.

However, the 57-year-old has always maintained that he played no part in the atrocity, twice appealing against his conviction.

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