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Lockerbie bomb claim 'misleading'

The Crown Office has dismissed an MSP's claims that she uncovered new evidence which could have compromised the Lockerbie prosecution as "misleading".

The SNP's Christine Grahame said a fragment of bomb timer used in the atrocity left Scotland twice before the trial of Abdelbasset al-Megrahi.

She said a Freedom of Information inquiry response revealed the evidence had been taken to Germany and the US.

Read entire article at BBC