Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has said it will put the killers of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial.
NTC vice chairman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said: "With regards to Gaddafi, we do not wait for anybody to tell us.
"We had already launched an investigation. We have issued a code of ethics in handling of prisoners of war.
"I am sure that was an individual act and not an act of revolutionaries or the national army. Whoever is responsible for that (the killing) will be judged and given a fair trial."
Sky News has retraced Gaddafi's final movements in his home town of Sirte, establishing that he moved house to house before being finally captured.
He tried to escape in a convoy but a Nato airstrike stopped the string of vehicles in their tracks and the former leader was forced to take refuge in a storm drain.
Gaddafi was hauled out by fighters but there is confusion about exactly what happened next leading to his death.
Video footage showed the former dictator bleeding heavily but still alive as he was pulled onto the back of a truck.
He later died from a bullet to the head and also sustained gunshot wounds to his stomach, according to the post-mortem report.
The NTC had suggested he was killed in crossfire as loyalists fought with anti-Gaddafi troops after the leader's capture.
But the announcement of a potential trial suggests a change of position as they contemplate whether he was unlawfully killed.
The move came after footage published by the Global Post in the US suggested Gaddafi had been sodomised before he died.
The video shows Gaddafi being dragged from his hiding place, bleeding from his head, arm and other injuries.
It then appears to show one of the fighters using a pole or knife to assault him before he is dragged onto the back of a truck.
The moment of his actual death has not yet emerged but videos have also shown him with a gun to his head.
Mystery also surrounds the death of his son Mutassim who was pictured drinking water and smoking while in captivity before he too was killed.
Amid the questions about Gaddafi's demise, the UN Security Council has ended its mandate for the NATO military operation in Libya that has lasted seven months.
The 15-nation council unanimously approved a resolution which had allowed foreign forces to use "all necessary measures" to protect civilians.
It means UN authorisation for foreign military operations in the country will now formally end at 11.59pm local Libyan time on October 31.
Meanwhile, there are fears weapons used by Libyan loyalists could end up in the hands of terrorists.
And the hunt is still on for another of Gaddafi's sons, Saif al Islam, who is still at large.
A senior NTC spokesman said he had crossed to the Niger side of the Libyan border.
Saif was charged, along with his father and Libya's ex-intelligence chief, with crimes against humanity for the bombing and shooting of civilian protesters in February.
A source within the NTC earlier said he wanted to turn himself in to face the International Criminal Court.
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