I am flabbergasted that someone still standing by her conviction in the McKie case is to be reinstated as a fingerprint expert.
It makes the fingerprint enquiry look like a waste of time after it found they were all liars.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... ds-9710450
Fiona McBride Goes Back To Work
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Thank you once again Big Wullie for keeping us aware of the post enquiry findings. I fully agree with your feeling of disbelief. She is responsible for a conclusion of a misidentified latent print repeated on multiple occasions over many years and gave signed reports with evidence before UK courts as to her incorrect finding. If she truly believed her testimony then only one conclusion stands, she is incompetent to be a fingerprint expert. Apart from the UK Judicial system allowing this current position to be reached the other body that are once again silent is the UK accrediting authority which apparently permits her to still claim expert status. In Australia we have an accreditation board which permits experts to practice the science of identification and it also allows them to remove that authority, a very sensible and pragmatic approach to controlling the standard and value of fingerprint science expertise. During the many years of struggle the McKie family experienced in reaching the Fingerprint Enquiry the same UK body was very silent on their position with regard to the misidentification with the consequence being its final ramifications on their standards. Prior to the Enquiry it took the IAI of America to formalise a review of the latent examination and report the correct finding of misidentification. While your own Judicial system remains silent and your authorising body still apparently permits her to claim expert status then I also agree there has been a significant loss of time and effort.
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Let us not forget she was willing to swear away the lives of two innocent people and indeed an innocent man was sentenced to life in prison.
She should be behind bars instead of being rewarded with a lump sum.
I watched every bit of her reactions during the fingerprint enquiry even the bits when she was nodding to Geddes in the witness box telling him what to say.
Scotland is so backwards when it comes to correcting their wrongs and we saw that when experts that did not agree with the Glasgow Cowboys they were all sacked rather than have then correct a wrong and lose public confidence.
What organisation would want to employ an expert who by her own admission cannot turn a juror into an expert in 30 minutes.
The mind boggles.
She should be behind bars instead of being rewarded with a lump sum.
I watched every bit of her reactions during the fingerprint enquiry even the bits when she was nodding to Geddes in the witness box telling him what to say.
Scotland is so backwards when it comes to correcting their wrongs and we saw that when experts that did not agree with the Glasgow Cowboys they were all sacked rather than have then correct a wrong and lose public confidence.
What organisation would want to employ an expert who by her own admission cannot turn a juror into an expert in 30 minutes.
The mind boggles.
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Lol Fiona McBride sent packing
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... ed-9967592
Shirley McKie fingerprint expert barred from police HQ on first day back on force for 10 years
Fiona McBride was turned away from the Scottish Police Authority's HQ despite the force being ordered to reinstate her after she was sacked in 2007.
The fingerprint expert at the centre of the notorious Shirley McKie case was barred on her first day back at work in 10 years.
The Scottish Police Authority were ordered to reinstate Fiona McBride after she was sacked in 2007.
Bosses were also ordered to stump up more than £300,000 in backpay.
But the 52-year-old was turned away when she arrived for her shift last Monday.
Staff refused to grant her access when she arrived at the SPA offices in Glasgow’s Pacific Quay.
Stunned McBride was also told that the SPA had not been informed of her return.
A source said: “Fiona was told to contact her lawyer and ask him to contact the SPA.
“She showed court paperwork ordering her reinstatement but it didn’t make a difference. There was a stand-off that lasted about 30 minutes before she eventually left.”
McBride was one of four experts who identified a thumbprint left in the home of murder victim Marion Ross in 1997 as Detective Constable McKie’s.
At the trial of David Asbury, who had his murder conviction quashed in 2002, McKie denied being in the house and was charged with perjury but was eventually found not guilty.
She started a civil action against the Scottish Executive – now the Scottish Government – over the prosecution and was awarded £750,000 in 2006. McBride, who earned £31,000 a year as one of Scotland’s leading print experts, was sacked the following year.
She took her fight to clear her name to the Supreme Court in London in 2016.
Five judges ordered her reinstatement and referred her case back to the employment tribunal in Glasgow.
Should the SPA refuse to give McBride her job back, the tribunal can make them pay additional compensation.
McBride – who maintains there was no mistake in her evidence gathering – refused to comment.
She is deluded and still in denial of any wrongdoing
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... ed-9967592
Shirley McKie fingerprint expert barred from police HQ on first day back on force for 10 years
Fiona McBride was turned away from the Scottish Police Authority's HQ despite the force being ordered to reinstate her after she was sacked in 2007.
The fingerprint expert at the centre of the notorious Shirley McKie case was barred on her first day back at work in 10 years.
The Scottish Police Authority were ordered to reinstate Fiona McBride after she was sacked in 2007.
Bosses were also ordered to stump up more than £300,000 in backpay.
But the 52-year-old was turned away when she arrived for her shift last Monday.
Staff refused to grant her access when she arrived at the SPA offices in Glasgow’s Pacific Quay.
Stunned McBride was also told that the SPA had not been informed of her return.
A source said: “Fiona was told to contact her lawyer and ask him to contact the SPA.
“She showed court paperwork ordering her reinstatement but it didn’t make a difference. There was a stand-off that lasted about 30 minutes before she eventually left.”
McBride was one of four experts who identified a thumbprint left in the home of murder victim Marion Ross in 1997 as Detective Constable McKie’s.
At the trial of David Asbury, who had his murder conviction quashed in 2002, McKie denied being in the house and was charged with perjury but was eventually found not guilty.
She started a civil action against the Scottish Executive – now the Scottish Government – over the prosecution and was awarded £750,000 in 2006. McBride, who earned £31,000 a year as one of Scotland’s leading print experts, was sacked the following year.
She took her fight to clear her name to the Supreme Court in London in 2016.
Five judges ordered her reinstatement and referred her case back to the employment tribunal in Glasgow.
Should the SPA refuse to give McBride her job back, the tribunal can make them pay additional compensation.
McBride – who maintains there was no mistake in her evidence gathering – refused to comment.
She is deluded and still in denial of any wrongdoing