Lockerbie campaigner Dr Jim Swire's fake bomb stunt as new Colin Firth drama airs

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Lockerbie campaigner Dr Jim Swire's fake bomb stunt as new Colin Firth drama airs
Author: mirrornews@mirror.co.uk (Mike Taylor)
Published: Jan, 04 2025 11:07

Brand new Sky drama Lockerbie follows Dr Jim Swire's hunt for justice as he tries to understand the deadly plane crash. Lockerbie: A Search for Truth focuses on Dr Swire’s search for justice and is based on the book, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Swire and Peter Biddulph.

Spanning five episodes, viewers see Dr Jim Swire (Colin Firth) demand answers about the fatal crash which killed his daughter Flora and 269 others on December 21, 1988. Only one man – intelligence operative Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from Tripoli – has ever been convicted over the attack. He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after he was diagnosed with cancer. He died in Libya in 2012.

But Swire has argued Megrahi was innocent and believes Iran – and not Libya – downed the flight. During the series, which can be watched in full on Sky and NOW, we see Dr Swire craft a fake bomb and take the device onboard a flight. But did the incident really happen and why did Dr Swire do it?.

Doctor Jim Swire brought a fake bomb on a flight with him and the drama mostly shares an accurate story of what happened. He built a fake bomb inside a radio cassette player to match the one that had detonated on Pan Am Flight 103. Dr Swire used marzipan inside to represent the explosive agent in the original bomb and took this device with him on a flight from Heathrow to New York City on May 18, 1990.

This was the same route that the flight his daughter Flora took and his cassette-recorder was examined by a security guard. The guard examined the device and only asked if the batteries had been removed, before the Lockerbie campaigner was allowed to pass.

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