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The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father's Search for Justice - Aye Write Festival Event

Dates
Friday, May 21, 2021 - 18:00 to 19:00
Location
Online
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The Open University is supporting the Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph event at Aye Write, Glasgow's annual book festival. 

The destruction of a Pan Am plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie died. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime but maintained his innocence until his death in 2012.

Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then it has been revealed that the USA paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited. 

Jim and his co-author Peter Biddulph will be in conversation with legendary journalist and OU honorary graduate Kate Adie, about his campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world's most shocking events.

Tickets are £5 and available now on the Aye Write website.

There is a wide range of free learning on the OU site OpenLearn, such as a short course in Writing what you know

Contact us

If you are interested in potentially holding an event with us please email: 
Scotland-Marcomms@open.ac.uk