I WAS TO FORCED CONFESS BY MASKED MEN

Alleged bomber claims his family was threatened by Libya heavies

- BY IONA YOUNG

A LIBYAN national on trial for building the bomb that took down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie nearly 40 years ago claims he was forced into making a false confession. Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi - known as Masud - has said he was in custody in Libya when three masked men ordered him to memorise information about the destruction of the US flight and another terror attack.

The 74-year-old said he repeated what he had learned to a Libyan official, according to reports from the BBC.