Shirley Mckie: The Cover-Up a Five-Page Special Report by Home Affairs Editor Liam Mcdougall ; 'There Seemed to Be . . . Some Manipulation of the Evidence . . . And Collective and Cultural Collusion Which Led to the Erroneous Identif Ication of Shirley Mckie'

Sunday Herald › February 21, 2006

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TEN days ago the First Minister set off an explosion within the Scottish justice system.

With a 15-word remark, Jack McConnell plunged Scottish fingerprint evidence into crisis when he stood up in parliament and said: "In this case it is quite clear that an honest mistake was made by individuals."

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Shirley Mckie: The Cover-Up a Five-Page Special Report by Home Affairs Editor Liam Mcdougall ; 'There Seemed to Be . . . Some Manipulation of the Evidence . . . And Collective and Cultural Collusion Which Led to the Erroneous Identif Ication of Shirley Mckie'

Since the statement - made in the wake of the Scottish Executive paying [GBP]750,000 from the public purse to former detective Shirley McKie - only one thing has become clear: there never was an honest mistake.

Nobody but McConnell and the Executive, it seems, believes that explanation of how a police officer came to be accused of leaving her fingerprints at the scene of Marion Ross's murder in 1997.

McKie, who was forced to leave Strathclyde Police over the affair and has battled severe depression and fought...

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