Rows of coffins of the victims of the Pan Am jumbo jet in the makeshift chapel of rest in Lockerbie's town hall. 14/08/2003: A deal was welcomed by Lockerbie's MP, Thursday August 14, 2003, who said the town could now move on following an admission by Libya of responsibility for the 1988 bombing. Russell Brown, Labour MP for Dumfries, said: "Compensation payments for families will never make up the the loss the families had in 1988, and the heartache and sorrow since.