First have a look at BBC Lockerbie drama unveiled

The BBC and Netflix have unveiled the primary pictures for a brand new drama analyzing the Lockerbie catastrophe.

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is scheduled to air later this 12 months, and can give attention to the Scottish and American investigators assigned to the 1988 tragedy, which claimed 270 lives.

SAS Rogue Heroes star Connor Swindells, Severance actress Merritt Wever and award-winning Scots actor Peter Mullan will star within the six-part sequence.

It’s the second drama to air this 12 months based mostly on Lockerbie, after a Sky manufacturing starring Colin Firth was met with a combined response from households of the victims.

In an announcement the BBC and Netflix stated the brand new programme can be centred across the seek for proof on the bottom in Scotland, earlier than taking within the trial at Camp Zeist in 2000 and the continuing build-up to a brand new trial within the USA.

It would additionally “spotlight the human impression on the investigators, the households and the Lockerbie neighborhood“.

Different stars within the new present embody Eddie Marsan, Phyliss Logan and Tony Curran.

Pan Am Flight 103 was introduced down on 21 December 1988, killing 259 passengers and crew and one other 11 residents in Lockerbie.

The catastrophe stays the worst act of mass homicide in British authorized historical past.

In 2001, a Scottish court docket sitting within the impartial Netherlands dominated the bombing was an act of state-sponsored terrorism carried out by Libyan intelligence.

Three judges determined Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was a part of the plot and convicted him of enjoying a central function within the bombing.

Megrahi was to serve a life sentence in Scotland however was despatched again to Libya in 2009 on compassionate grounds after being recognized with most cancers. He died in 2012.

Some kinfolk of British victims, led by the English GP Dr Jim Swire, maintained that Megrahi was harmless, and the true culprits had been Iran and a Syrian-backed group, the Widespread Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine Normal Command.

Dr Swire’s ebook Lockerbie: A Seek for Reality impressed the Sky manufacturing, which was broadcast in January.

The investigation gained momentum after the 2011 fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

This later led to Abu Agila Masud being charged with making the bomb that detonated on the flight.

He was on account of go on trial in Could after pleading not responsible, however the case has been postponed after each the prosecution and defence sought a delay.

The brand new sequence has been written by novelist Jonathan Lee and Scottish screenwriter Gillian Roger Park, and directed by Michael Keillor.

It would air on BBC One within the UK and Eire, and by way of Netflix globally.