Lockerbie The Unheard Voices.

[HelenaDove]

Is anyone else here watching this. Its been thirty years since this shocking heinous crime.

Crossed posts! I just started a thread. Utterly heartbreaking.

im on Channel 5 +1 so running an hour behind.

My dad was a police officer and worked at it. It’s only been in the last few years that he has talked about what he saw. I remember him coming home one night (I was a ghoul as a child) and I was desperate to know what he had been doing. He didn’t tell me but drank a bottle of vodka that night. Dad was never a drinker, still isn’t.

Yes it's one of those tragic things everyone remembers where they were when it happened. Heartbreaking.

NickNacky

i read an article yesterday (it was in the DM) that contained witness statements from police , emergency services and volunteers.

Was heartbreaking.

i hope your dad had good support afterwards

i was 15 and looking forward to Christmas like most teens and saw it on the News At Ten.

I think I might have read that helena

No, they didn’t get much support back then. You just got on with it. He’s old school but has never truly got over it, I don’t think. It doesn’t affect him day to day but he will never forget.

The police service is different now thankfully

I knew about Kim Cattrall but didnt know about John Lydon or The Four Tops.

Nicky im glad to hear it. There are many wonderful selfless ppl who work in our emergency services.

I text him about an hour ago to say that it was on but followed it up saying it was very upsetting and maybe not to watch.

I’m also in the police. I hope nothing like this happens in my service.

I would hope counselling would be better now for emergency services and police. It must have been awful for your dad nicky.

It’s is now, the effect of trauma on emergency service workers is better known.

I appreciate your flowers and thoughts trust me, but it’s no where comparable with the pain of the families involved.

It’s horrific.

Emmerdale pissed me off with their insensitive storyline five years later.

Whilst trying not to make this about my dad but clearly failing miserably!

As a parent now I wonder what my dad was thinking watching me open my presents on Christmas Day having seen what he did, he would have put a face on it. I was 10, I was probably a selfish asshole that morning as most children would be. As an adult now I see the horror that was inflicted on the UK by that event.

Nicknacky Your dad was there and saw all this. Say whatever you need to

The girl who’d been my best friend at primary school died at Lockerbie.

I hadn’t seen her since we’d gone to different secondary schools but when I found out I was devastated.

family Oh that’s terrible. I’m sorrry to hear that x

Thank you nicknacky.

I can’t imagine the horror of what your dad went through

Family im so sorry

Remember that night clearly and thought the programme was sensitively made.

I worked with a bloke who was related to one of the victims on the ground. He told me he had recently moved to Lockerbie for a job after a long period of unemployment and was loving his new life, looking forward to Xmas for a change. I think it was just him in the house that was destroyed and his wife and children were safe as they were out (though I may be mistaken).

I also once read that 2 of the passengers died of exposure rather than injuries from the crash. They were found still in their seats holding hands. I’ll have to do some research to see if that’s true or not.

lucky I think I read once about that couple and the possibility that they were alive and aware. That’s even worse, in my humble opinion.

I think it’s the people on the ground that effects me more. Just going about normal life when the unimaginable happens.

I live near an airport and whenever I hear flights that seem different my ears prick up.

The age of some of the rescuers. Some of them on duty were only a year or two older than i was at the time

It was my first Christmas and we are an hour away, my mum says she can remember hearing what sounded like an explosion that night. I think about every Christmas.

I am flying to florida on the 27th so I’m avoiding. But I wanted to watch untill I remembered and thought better of it.

Remember watching emmerdale as a child and I now realise it was all based on that. That’s pretty shit of them to make money out of such a tragedy. Especially as I read about the farmer who found the poor baby and that happened in the EmmerdAle one too! ERGH

I just recently read a book about the other plane downed by the Libyans in that era and the legal fight for compensation that followed. It's called The Forgotten Flight. I know the guy who wrote it and how long and hard he fought for justice for the families.