“The tape is so beautiful, Flora’s voice singing while she playing her guitar, the budgies twitting away in the background. And from that day on, it was another place in Scotland that would consume Jim’s thoughts for the next three decades – Lockerbie. More than 32 years later, and now aged 85, Jim is finally releasing a full account of all he discovered in a new book, The Lockerbie Bombing. "We were both sure she was saving it to tell us on Christmas Day from America, but she never got the chance to do that.”Jim dealt with his grief by spending every waking hour searching for information. Incredibly, the message told airport staff that if they had suspicions about any object it should be “consigned to the aircraft hold” – exactly where the Lockerbie bomb exploded.

Source: Daily Mirror June 08, 2021 18:51 UTC