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Shama Martin, 21, of Clapton, a British citizen, said officials at JFK airport held him for eight hours and interrogated him about whether he had links to Libya before putting him on a flight to London.

Mr Martin has never been to the north African state blamed for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and was six months old when his father, Noel George Martin, 27, was one of its 270 victims.

He said: "They were asking if I have ever travelled to the Netherlands or Libya. They never mentioned Lockerbie but must have been thinking about it because they knew my brother's and father's name."

Officials eventually told him he was being refused entry because he had overstayed visiting his grandfather five years ago. But Mr Martin said: "I've been back three or four times since with no problem. Why ask me about Libya? My family are victims of Lockerbie, we haven't done anything wrong. I'm disgusted."