Jim Swire
Jim Swire | |
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| Born | Herbert Swire 1936 (age 88–89) Windsor, Berkshire, England |
| Occupation | General practitioner |
| Known for | Views and research on the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland |
| Spouse | Jane |
| Children | 3 |
Herbert Swire (born 1936), known better as Jim Swire, is an English doctor best known for his involvement in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which his daughter Flora was killed. Swire lobbied toward a solution for the difficulties in bringing suspects in the original bombing to trial, and later advocated the retrial and release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the originally convicted suspect in the case.
In 1990, Swire carried a fake bomb – a near-exact replica of the one that killed his daughter – onto two different aircraft, one in the UK and a connecting one in the US, as a demonstration of lax security in both countries.