Edinburgh, 28 April-(ANA)-The Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to begin a second appeal against his conviction for blowing up a Pan Am flight 21 years ago.
Lawyers for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer, said judges at his trial heard insufficient evidence to convict him beyond reasonable doubt.
Megrahi, 57, will not be present at the appeal in Edinburgh, which is expected to last at least four weeks.
A total of 270 people died when the plane exploded over Lockerbie in 1988.
They included 11 people on the ground as wreckage from Pan Am Flight 103, which had been heading from London to New York, fell from the sky.
Megrahi has already lost one appeal, which was heard in a special Scottish Court in the Netherlands a year after his conviction in January 2001.
Since then he has been in prison in Scotland, and must remain in jail until at least 2026.
In 2007, after a four-year investigation, a second appeal was ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which said his conviction "may be unsafe".
Currently he is held in Greenock Prison, where he was diagnosed as suffering from terminal prostate cancer.
In October, 2008 appeal court judges rejected his plea to be released from jail on compassionate grounds. (ANA)
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