06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
New drama series sharing untold story of Lockerbie Bombing investigation to premiere this month
The first episode of the Bombing of Pan Am 103 will be shown on BBC One on Sunday, May 18.
A new drama series sharing the untold story of the investigation into the Lockerbie Air Disaster will be screened later this month.
The first episode of the Bombing of Pan Am 103 will be shown on BBC One on Sunday, May 18.
New episodes will premiere on Sundays and Mondays at 9pm for a three week period.
The series is based on the 1988 tragedy, when Pan AM 103 blew up above Lockerbie on December 21 while on a flight from Heathrow to New York.
A total of 270 people, including everyone on board, lost their lives – making it the worst ever terrorist attack on British soil.
The show will follow the initial search for evidence in Scotland to the trial at Camp Zeist in 2000 and the upcoming new trial in the United States.
It also aims to highlight the human impact on the investigators, the families and the Lockerbie community as it sought to rebuild and connect with bereaved families around the world.
Made by World Productions with lead writer Jonathan Lee, stars include Sex Education actor Connor Swindells, Suits star Patrick J Adams, Ozark's Peter Mullan and Ray Donovan's Eddie Marsan.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is so far the only man convicted in relation to the bombing.
He was found guilty of 270 counts of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting at a special court at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2001.
He was sent to prison in Scotland, but was controversially granted compassionate release in 2009 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, returning home to Libya where he died in 2012.
The trial of alleged bomb-maker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was due to begin in the US capital of Washington in May, however, it has been delayed.
The Libyan national denies making the device that caused the disaster.
• The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is on BBC iPlayer and BBC One from 9pm on Sunday, May 18 and will be on Netflix globally at a later date.
