Cathy Jamieson

Scottish governance in disrepute

By The Basa ⋅ February 12, 2006 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Scotland’s law which was once the envy of the world has now been brought into disrepute together with our Governance.

That much was made clear by James Mackay, a respected former Deputy Chief Constable of Tayside Police, who had been asked to lead an investigation into the conduct of the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO), whose officials alleged that McKie’s left thumbprint had been found on a doorframe at Ross’s home, in June 2000.

Three extraordinary sentences from his report, published today for the first time, reveal his concerns.

“It is my view and that of the enquiry team that there was criminality involved in the actings of the SCRO experts and that that criminality first reared its head in February 1997. This was after the blind testing [an anonymous review of case work] was carried out when it should have been patently obvious to those involved that a mistake had been made and there were opportunities then for the mistake to be acknowledged and dealt with. The fact that it was not so dealt with led to ‘cover up’ and criminality.”

The Scottish people this week had to pay the innocent Shirley McKie a whopping £750,000 when all along the people in power who knew that this lady was innocent sat back and watched her suffer. This payout wasn’t that they were admitting the amazing foul-up, this was because they knew that experts were flying in from all corners of the earth to show the lies and cheating in open court.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson has to be made to resign over this nightmare. Troubled Jack O’Connell is also in the frame as he joined ministers in the lie that the error was an “honest mistake”. Also taking some blame must be previous Justice Minister Jim Wallace. There must also be a full public inquiry.

More info: Root out the cronies who presided over this miscarriage of justice
Criminality and Cover-up
McConnell fingered in £750,000 print case
McKie deserves public inquiry (Paid Registration Required)

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