Day of destruction

Connor Swindells plays a Scottish investigator searching for answers in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing

- SEAN MARLAND

Earlier this year, Sky Atlantic drama series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth featured a memorable performance from Colin Firth as Jim Swire, a real-life campaigning father whose daughter Flora was killed in the terrorist attack on 21 December 1988.

The atrocity - which saw a bomb explode in the cargo hold of Pan Am Flight 103 as it flew over the Scottish town of Lockerbie - remains the worst terrorist attack in British history, claiming the lives of 270 people and taking a terrible toll on countless others who were affected by the disaster and its aftermath.

Now, a new BBC1 drama revisits the harrowing story by looking at how the investigation was conducted on both sides of the Atlantic, and how the fight for justice continues to this day.

TRAGEDY

'I was a young boy when the bombing occurred and vividly remember the story on TV,' says writer Jonathan Lee, who has penned the powerful six-parter. 'I felt like I knew the story, but on this project I realised how much more there actually was to know.