Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

All 259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet above Lockerbie in Scotland, 38 minutes into its flight from London to New York in 1988.

Formerly being an intelligence officer, Abdel-Lissat Al-Megrahi is the only person convicted in connection with the bombing after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting at a special court in The Hague in 2001.

He was sent to serve his prison sentence 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.

His fellow Libyan co-accused, Alameen Khalifa Fima, who was cleared at the time of involvement in the atrocity, was recently reported to have died.