New Delhi: A Libyan may have been wrongly convicted by a British court for the Lockerbie bombing, indicated a Scottish commission after a four year probe.
The Libyan was sentenced to a life term six years ago.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was jailed for the 1988 bombing of a US airliner over Lockerbie.
The Scottish Criminal Review Commission (SCRC) - based on some new evidence that has come to light - said it may have been a miscarriage of justice.
Scotland has now given him Al-Megrahi the right to appeal for a second time.
Megrahi, now 55, was convicted by a trio of Scottish judges sitting in a special court in the Netherlands of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. He was jailed for a total of 27 years.
The explosion on the New York-bound flight killed all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground in the southern Scottish town of Lockerbie in what was Britain's worst terrorist atrocity.
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