Update 7 September / More than 100 Irish IRA victims’ families in the UK have been told by Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office in London that the government will not put formal pressure on Libya to compensate them, thus following the example of the US. Lawyers for three families in the US have obtained what the BBC describes as a multi-million pound out of court settlement with Libya, which the victims’ lawyers say supplied the IRA with explosives from Libya. Monday 7 September Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam told Sky News that if victims’ families requested compensation the answer in the first instance would be “no” and they could take the matter to court – a reply seen by the families as positive because it is the first sign of engagement on the part of Libya.

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