Jim Swire, father of Lockerbie victim Flora, said he had been satisfied of Megrahi's innocence "for some years"

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Jim Swire, father of Lockerbie victim Flora, said he had been satisfied of Megrahi's innocence "for some years"

Raymond Rutting

Jim Swire, father of one of the Lockerbie bombing victims, arrives at a Scottish court for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi's trial in 2001. Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 bombing which killed 270 people, is to be buried Monday after he died of cancer protesting his innocence to the end. On Sunday Swire said he had been satifsfied "for some years" of Megrahi's innocence.