Lockerbie bomber's trial compared to Hillsborough cover-up by campaigners LOCKERBIE campaigners have lodged "fresh allegations" about the conduct of the Scottish authorities at the trial 11 years ago with justice secretary Kenny MacAskill. Demands for a fresh inquiry into the bombing of the Pan Am flight in 1988 will come before MSPs on Holyrood's justice committee tomorrow. The Justice for Megrahi (JFM) campaign have compared the cover-up surrounding the trial with the recent Hillsborough revelations and say that their petition calling for an inquiry must be "actioned." In a submission to the committee, the group states: "The outcome of the Hillsborough enquiry has undoubtedly shone a light on the inner workings of a justice system that purported to keep its citizens safe and secure. Now we can see that protection of the system and the wrongdoers within it took precedence over protection of the individual citizen. Indeed efforts were made to transfer blame to innocent third parties. If Hillsborough was England's shame then Lockerbie is Scotland's, and much of the indifference and arrogance identified within the former can be identified in the latter. The campaign submitted a letter to Mr MacAskill which lodges "serious formal allegations" relating to the conduct of the investigation and the Kamp van Zeist trial. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the only person convicted over the Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people at a special court in the Netherlands in 2001. He was freed from prison in 2009 on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He died at his home in Libya earlier this year. A Scottish Government spokesman said: "The issues being raised in relation to the conviction itself must be a matter for a court of law - Mr Al-Megrahi was convicted in a court of law, his conviction was upheld on appeal, and that is the only appropriate place for his guilt or innocence to be determined. As was made clear by the Cabinet Secretary in his statement to the Scottish Parliament in February this year, it remains open for relatives of Mr Al-Megrahi to ask the SCCRC to refer to the case to the Appeal Court again on a posthumous basis, which Ministers would be entirely comfortable with. And, of course, the Lockerbie case remains a live investigation, and Scotland's criminal justice authorities have made clear that they will rigorously pursue any new lines of inquiry.