Lockerbie bombing: the aftermath

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, top left, is greet by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, on arrival in Tripoli Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP

The nose section of Pan Am flight 103, a 747 aircraft called The Maid of the Sea, lies in a field outside Lockerbie, Scotland, on 22 December 1988 Photograph: Martin Cleaver/AP

Houses burn behind the wreckage of the bombed plane Photograph: PA

Police officers stand by debris left after the attack Photograph: PA Wire/PA

Damage caused by the explosion in the town of Lockerbie Photograph: Letkey/AFP

The reconstructed remains of flight 103 lie in a warehouse in Farnborough in January 2008. The Air Accident Investigation Branch has housed the remains of the Boeing 747 for the past 19 years Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi Photograph: Crown Office/PA

Lockerbie, 20 years after the attack Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

A woman looks at the main headstone in the Lockerbie disaster memorial garden, at the Dryfesdale cemetery Photograph: David Moir/Reuters

A member of the public visits the Lockerbie memorial Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The Pan Am memorial window in the low chamber of Lockerbie town hall Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi leaves a police van at Glasgow airport before boarding a plane bound for Tripoli Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

The plane takes off from Glasgow airport Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images