Revealed: Suspect for Rory Murder Was Listed As a Risk to Children On Police Files Failings Expose Crisis in Justice System with More Than 30,000 Outstanding Criminal Warrants
Sunday Herald › September 06, 2005
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THE chief suspect in the Rory Blackhall murder was the subject of a police intelligence file revealing that he posed a sexual risk to children.
A Sunday Herald investigation has established that crucial details about Simon Harris were placed on the Scottish Intelligence Database (SID) before the Livingston schoolboy went missing - information that could have alerted Lothian and Borders Police to the fact that the 37-year-old was a danger to children.See the full content of this document
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Revealed: Suspect for Rory Murder Was Listed As a Risk to Children On Police Files Failings Expose Crisis in Justice System with More Than 30,000 Outstanding Criminal Warrants
Senior police sources have revealed that the file on Harris would have been available on computer to investigators in seconds if they had carried out a keyword search as simple as "sex", "man" and "Livingston".
The file on Harris, found hanged in his home by police 10 days after Rory went missing and seven days after the 11year-old's body was found, contains a detailed description, a DNA profi...See the full content of this document
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