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London (EON) – Former Libyan intelligence official who was convicted and sent to jail following the 1988 Lockerbie bomb may have been innocent after all.

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megahi who is the former Libyran intelligence officer, was put in jail back in 201 for the bombing. He was the only person convicted. He lost his initial appeal as well in 2002 and is serving a 27-year sentence in Scottish prison.

The Lockerbie bombing will allow an appeal of the verdict just in case they truly were wrong. The ruling has major impacts obviously on the family of the victims who were on the Pan Am Flight 103 back on December 21, 1988.

The flight killed 270 people, including 179 Americans.

A Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission put out an 800-page report which stated that a “miscarriage of justice” may have occured in many locations during the case.