lockerbie trial. the trial is expected to last more than one year. almost $20m have been spent building the court, prison and media center, on a tiny patch of dutch soil designated as scotland. this was going to be a scottish court inside a former us airbase inside of the netherlands, and that area would be declared scottish territory for the duration of the trial. so, they were tried under scottish law. because scottish judges were trying the case, my job was to assist the international press and news agencies in understanding the trial. victoria: there's quite a bit of difference between scottish law and american law. under scottish law, there is no death penalty, there's no life imprisonment without parole. so, we were horrified that this was supposed to be, you know, the trial of the century that was going to bring justice to our loved ones. jim: we arranged to live in holland for the duration of the trial. and call me obsessed or what you like, i was determined to extract all the information i co

man 8: nothing is what it seems in the lockerbie story. this particular phase of our search for the truth is almost complete. that is a tremendous relief, and that's the upside of the decision by the judges to deliver their verdict so soon. reporter: the court that has heard 84 days and three million words of evidence is ready for the final day of britain's biggest mass murder trial. reporter 2: abdelbaset ali al-megrahi, 48, and lamin khalifah fhimah, 44, were both accused of planting the fatal bomb, in a series of luggage transfers. the prosecution, over nine months, called over 200 witnesses, with 10,000 pages of testimony, pressing its case that these men were libyan terrorists. the evidence, even though it was circumstantial, we thought it was very convincing. (siren wails) the key issues in evidence were mr megrahi's role in the security services in libya. his use of false identities. and his presence in the airport in malta, the morning that the suitcase containing the bomb was ingested on the flight. and mr megrahi's connections wi