In pictures: Lockerbie bombing

Legal history has been made by the Lockerbie trial, which was held under Scots law at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands. This is the trail to trial in pictures.

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The bag containing the bomb was allegedly loaded at Luqa Airport in Malta

From there, it was placed in a Pan Am container in Frankfurt bound for New York

The defining image of Pan Am flight 103, blown out of the sky after starting its Atlantic crossing

The town of Lockerbie was devastated by the crash

Inside the Camp Zeist courtroom, built for the Lockerbie trial

An artist's impression of the two accused in the dock

Relatives of the two suspects have been in court too

Bereaved families watched proceedings unfold

At times, world media attention has been focussed on the trial

The judges who are deciding the accused's guilt or innocence