LOCKERBIE campaigners have written to the United Nations calling for a public inquiry into the 1988 disaster.
The letter has 19 names on it, including Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter, Flora, died in the bombing of Pan Am 103, and was sent on Monday to the president of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, Sir Teddy Taylor, a former shadow secretary of state for Scotland and MP from 1964 to 2005, and Lockerbie legal expert Professor Robert Black QC have signed the letter.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu also contacted the authors to add his name to the letter.
It sets out which areas the inquiry should cover, such as the investigation of the destruction of the plane, the Fatal Accident Inquiry into the event, the trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah in Camp Zeist, as well as who should be called to give evidence.
