A “COALITION of the willing” behind the Lockerbie bombing should face prosecution, the minister who freed Abdelbasset al-Megrahi said today.

Former Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill wrote in the Scotsman newspaper that Mr Megrahi’s conviction was “questionable to say the least,” adding that he had “played a peripheral role but wasn’t the bomber.”

In 2003, then Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi accepted that his government was responsible for the 1988 bombing of US airliner Pan AM flight 103.