THE Solicitor General for Scotland addressed an audience of students in America yesterday about the ongoing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.

Lesley Thomson QC led a delegation from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to Syracuse University, for a remembrance week to honour the 270 people, including 35 of its own students, who died when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie almost 25 years ago.

Her visit comes in the week that intelligence reports were released showing how the police secretly discussed the payment of large rewards to the most important witness in the case against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who was the only person convicted of the bombing.

A Crown Office spokesman confirmed that the Solicitor General is speaking to Syracuse University students , and added: "Scotland's prosecutors are absolutely determined that the passage of time will afford no protection to those who have thus far evaded justice."