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The trial of the man accused of making the Lockerbie bomb - the worst terrorist attack in UK history - has been delayed for a second time.

Libyan national Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, known as Mas'ud, was due to go on trial in May, however, the case has been delayed again until April 20 next year. The BBC reports that in July, his lawyers had requested a further delay, arguing that they needed more time to gather all the evidence from the case, which is now 37-years-old.

Masud has denied priming the explosive device which brought down Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, killing 270 people. The explosion killed 259 passengers and crew and a further 11 people in the Dumfries and Galloway town when wreckage of the Boeing 747 fell on their homes.

It remains th

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