A London Councillor has contacted every new MSP in the Holyrood Parliament requesting them to endorse the public inquiry into the Pan Am 103 debacle called for by the Justice for Megrahi Committee.

Councillor David Durant, who represents the city's borough of Havering, called on MSPs to "help the search for truth and prove your Parliament is worthy of the name Parliament by supporting this petition."

The petition has been placed into the legacy papers and will be heard for an unprecedented fourth time before the newly constituted Petitons Committee. 

"There was never a public inquiry into Lockerbie, but one day the truth will be told. Perhaps sooner than expected following the stunning SNP victory in May?" Durant writes.

"The Public Petitions Committee will soon discuss PE1370 Justice for Megrahi and MSPs can help the search for truth and prove your Parliament is worthy of the name Parliament by supporting this petition."