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Lockerbie baby mystery is solved after 30 years: Policeman haunted by face of dead girl who fell from sky in Pan Am flight terror blast finally learns her name was Bryony three decades later
Colin Dorrance was a young police officer on the night when 259 passengers and crew were killed by a terrorist bomb which blew up a Boeing 747 over Scotland. Eleven residents of the town were also killed by falling debris.
Mr Dorrance has told how one of the first bodies to be brought to Lockerbie's police station that night was that of 20 month-old toddler.
She had fallen from the sky outside the town and a farmer drove her body down to a makeshift mortuary on the front seat of his tractor. Mr Dorrance said it looked as if she was just sleeping.
He did not find out the identity of the youngster as the full scale of the tragedy unfolded that night and felt that prying into the details later in his career would be unprofessional.
But Mr Dorrance, now 48 and retired from the police, discovered last week that the baby was actually Bryony Owen, a little girl who was on board Pan Am flight 103 with her mother Yvonne. The pair were buried together.
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- Airline bombing in 1988 killed 259 passengers and 11 people in Lockerbie
- Policeman on duty that night tells of heartbreaking discovery of girl's body
- He didn't find out her identity and felt it improper who look into it later in life
- But when he took the family of another victim to the site last week, he was told
Colin Dorrance was a young police officer on the night when 259 passengers and crew were killed by a terrorist bomb which blew up a Boeing 747 over Scotland. Eleven residents of the town were also killed by falling debris.
Mr Dorrance has told how one of the first bodies to be brought to Lockerbie's police station that night was that of 20 month-old toddler.
She had fallen from the sky outside the town and a farmer drove her body down to a makeshift mortuary on the front seat of his tractor. Mr Dorrance said it looked as if she was just sleeping.
He did not find out the identity of the youngster as the full scale of the tragedy unfolded that night and felt that prying into the details later in his career would be unprofessional.
But Mr Dorrance, now 48 and retired from the police, discovered last week that the baby was actually Bryony Owen, a little girl who was on board Pan Am flight 103 with her mother Yvonne. The pair were buried together.
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