Scottish Experts report and settlement negotiations
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:34 am
Can I welcome clpex back with the news that THREE staff members of the Scottish Fingerprint Service (employed by Grampian Police in Aberdeen and who between them have 54 years of fingerprinting experience) , have mounted an astonishing public challenge to their management and to their beleaguered colleagues in the Scottish Criminal Record Office by undertaking – in their own time – a complete reanalysis of the fingerprint evidence from the Shirley McKie case which comprehensively proves that the fingerprints identified as Shirley’s by the SCRO in 1997 were not and could not have been hers.
They have now distributed their official report, outlining their findings, and have sent copies to the Lord Advocate as well as their own bosses including the Chief Constable of Grampian Police.
This is the first complete analysis by Scottish experts using the original court material. Following Shirley’s High Court acquittal in 1999 on a charge of perjury, the SCRO and Scottish Fingerprint Service have refused to release the court productions, citing instructions from the Justice Minister and the Lord Advocate.
Breaking News!! Scottish Executive to enter into negotiations re settlement
For full story: http://www.shirleymckie.com/ (breaking news - 30.6.05/3.7.05)
They have now distributed their official report, outlining their findings, and have sent copies to the Lord Advocate as well as their own bosses including the Chief Constable of Grampian Police.
This is the first complete analysis by Scottish experts using the original court material. Following Shirley’s High Court acquittal in 1999 on a charge of perjury, the SCRO and Scottish Fingerprint Service have refused to release the court productions, citing instructions from the Justice Minister and the Lord Advocate.
Breaking News!! Scottish Executive to enter into negotiations re settlement
For full story: http://www.shirleymckie.com/ (breaking news - 30.6.05/3.7.05)