RELATIVES of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing presented their case yesterday to a Scottish judge for launching a posthumous appeal on behalf of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.

Mr Megrahi was convicted of the atrocity but died maintaining his innocence.

Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Lucy was killed in the bombing, said from outside Edinburgh’s High Court: “We want the truth. If I haven’t lost hope in 26 years, I’m not going to lose hope today.”