RELATIVES of the Lockerbie bombing victims have banded together with the accused’s own family in a renewed search for the truth.

A Scottish court convicted airport security officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi more than a decade ago of planting the bomb that downed Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people.

But many in the families of those killed believe Mr Megrahi was not guilty, with evidence suggesting he was not the bomber withheld from his 2001 trial and subsequent appeal, a key witness found to be an unreliable CIA asset and the presence in the wreckage of a suitcase full of white powder belonging to one of two senior CIA operatives included in the deathtoll remains unexplained.