Relative of Lockerbie victim reacts to Camp Zeist verdict

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(14 Mar 2002) • • 1. Hudson entering newsroom • 2. Mid shot Hudson watching as decision on Lockerbie appeal is read out (UPSOUND (English) Lord Cullen, Presiding Judge: For the reasons given in the opinion, with which we all concur, we have concluded that none of the grounds of appeal is well founded. The appeal will accordingly be refused. ) • 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Hudson, Father of Lockerbie victim: • Well as the judges said, the appeal points were unfounded. There were many scenarios or possibilities that were broadcast by the defence, that were considered by the trial court, as well as at least some of them by this appeal court. Possibilities without proof do not make for evidence in a court of law. • 4. Close up television monitor showing court room • 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Hudson, Father of Lockerbie victim: • Clearly I think the US policy has now been vindicated, first with respect to accusing these people of the bombing, and secondly through the UN imposing sanctions on Libya, as well as the conditions they now have for removing those sanctions. • 6. Cutaway Hudson watching reading of opinion • 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Hudson, Father of Lockerbie victim: • I think Libya now has a clear choice. They can take the path that leads to, eventually, to rejoining the community of nations, and normalisation to at least some degree, even with the US. Or it can continue on this other path that it's been on, perhaps less so in recent years, the path of promoting and advocating terrorism, protecting terrorists, financing terrorists, sometimes, as in the case of Lockerbie, actually carrying out these terrorist acts. • 8. Cutaway Hudson watching reading of opinion • 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Hudson, Father of Lockerbie victim: • I think it does bring some closure, although that word is something that most family members feel is not completely appropriate. But it does bring at least this chapter to a close, and hopefully we can now go forward and have a full justice result for this whole matter. • 10. Cutaway desk with monitors, empty chair • 11. Close up Hudson's face as he watches reading of opinion • • STORYLINE: • • A Scottish appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a former Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people. • • The five-judge court ruled unanimously that Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, 49, was guilty of responsibility for the bomb that brought down the Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland. • • Among the dead were 179 Americans. • • Al-Megrahi was found guilty last year of loading an unaccompanied suitcase bomb onto a flight in Malta that was later transferred onto Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded en route from London to New York over Lockerbie, Scotland. • • One of the Americans killed was Melina Hudson, whose father Paul Hudson said Thursday's decision was a step in the right direction, but not an end to the case. • • He wants to see more of the responsibility for the tragedy laid at the feet of the Libyan government. • • Hudson and a group of other Lockerbie victims' family members will be on Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon pressing the US government to pursue Libya in the Lockerbie bombing case. • • Like many other victim's family members, he hopes that pressure from the US government will force Libya to admit to its role in the bombing and make financial reparations to the families. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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