Lockerbie again.

The death of the Libyan “Lockerbie bomber”, Abdel Baset Ali el-Megrahi, three years after released on compassionate grounds from a Scottish prison, has revived the controversy over whether he was indeed guilty as an agent of the Libyan government of planting the bomb on a Pan America Flight 103 in 1988 that killed 270 people in the air and on the ground in Lockerbie. David Cameron has quickly dismissed any possibility of an inquiry into this disaster, saying that el-Magrahi's conviction in Scotland in 2001 was by a court “with proper powers, proper court proceedings”. Yet after a trial lasting 85 days the three-judge court itself said that “the case was circumstantial, the evidence incomplete and some witnesses unreliable”.

Opinion of el-Megrahi's guilt is divided. Most of the American families affected think he was correctly sentenced but British families are divided.
Jim Swire, whose daughter was killed, formed the “Justice for Megrahi” group and insists that new evidence would have led to his release on appeal. The new Libyan government has undertaken to review the information it possesses but does not see it as a high priority. With the passage of time, el-Megrahi's death and the fall of the Gaddafi government it seems unlikely that any inquiry could lead to a convincing conclusion that would satisfy all those affected by this terrorist act.