Before Action
Our solicitors have today sent the letter below to Police Scotland.
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It’s worth remembering what this is about.
– Peter Murrell was recently sentenced to over five years in prison for misappropriating approximately £400,000 from the SNP, which is the crime of embezzlement.
– John Swinney recently admitted that the SNP misappropriated close to £700,000 from donors to “ring-fenced” fundraisers for a second indyref, spending the money on party interests instead, which is also the crime of embezzlement.
– Police Scotland and the Crown Office have declined to prosecute the second embezzlement offence, saying that they investigated it before and somehow failed to notice what the First Minister has now publicly admitted on camera.
– Despite the First Minister’s admission, which came after the police investigation into the missing money was closed, Police Scotland inexplicably refuse to consider this as “new evidence” and reopen the investigation.
– Police Scotland and the Crown Office blame each other for the decision not to prosecute, but neither will release any correspondence between them on the subject to clear up which of them is telling something at least in vague proximity to the truth.
– Police Scotland and the Crown Office also both flatly refuse to release the written statement given to them by Nicola Sturgeon regarding the investigation following her seven-hour “no comment” interview.
(Sturgeon also refuses to release it, despite previously saying she would, and the Crown Office blocked Police Scotland’s attempts to interview her again on account of her lack of co-operation.)
The former First Minister, the current First Minister, the police and the prosecution service are all on the same side, saying the same thing: there’s nothing to see here, but you can’t see it anyway.
(Their being on the same side is all the stranger when you consider that two of them are supposed to be investigating crimes committed by the party the other two were leader and deputy leader of at the time.)
In the name of justice, transparency and accountability, we will continue trying to expose what all of them are united in not wanting you to know. As ever, we’ll keep you updated on how it goes.
16 is the clincher
Good luck Stuart, these bastards are it.
Jack Russell wi a bone , hats off
At what point is one of these going to fold and say he/she isn’t worth saving?
Thank you for continuing the fight, if anything we need to know how corrupt our institutions are.
I have no idea how she being protected when she isn’t in a position of power any more, but she has saved the union for now.
Superb! Let battle commence.
Hope to see full accountability achieved, and honest justice delivered. How much is left (or has been spent) from the £600K referendum fund, and what’s the breakdown of spend?
Excellent work Rev and I’m sure we are all waiting with bated breath for what the Police come back with. Stall, ignore and dismiss can only work as a response for so long – and they are running out of road….
Excellent Stuart count me in for the fundraiser. Its about time we had another one of your famous fundraisers seeing as we’re not going to get the truth any other way.
What is a likely outcome of this? I understand these things move in legal steps. Will they just double down and wait for the storm to pass or a squirrel to dance across the horizon dressed in evening wear?
“…you may wish to seek legal advice.” ???
I am ready to donate.
I’d just like to express my admiration for your tenacity in sticking it to the Police Scotland sleekit, cowardly, probably corrupt chancers.
That, hopefully, will be something they can’t just dismiss with a one-fingered salute.