Libyan national Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah, who was acquitted in the infamous Lockerbie bombing trial of 1991, has passed away at the age of 70. Fhimah was a former employee of Libyan Airlines and worked for the carrier in Malta prior to the devastating bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988, which claimed the lives of 270 individuals. Originally charged alongside Abdulbasset Al Megrahi, Fhimah was ultimately found not guilty while his co-accused received a life sentence for mass murder. Fhimah's funeral is scheduled to take place in Tripoli, Libya on Wednesday. In recent years, allegations emerged implicating Fhimah in the Lockerbie bombing case once again, with another Libyan citizen, Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, reportedly confessing to his involvement in the plot along with Fhimah and Megrahi. However, the contents of Al-Marimi's alleged confession and other new evidence have yet to lead to a second trial for Fhimah due to legal and political challenges. Al-Marimi is set to stand trial in Washington, D.C. next year, potentially shedding new light on the Lockerbie bombing case and its aftermath. The indictment against Fhimah announced by the U.S. Government in 1991 remains outstanding under Scotland's Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011, which allows for a suspect to be tried over the same crime a second time if new evidence substantially strengthens the case against them.