JAMES Wolffe, the Lord Advocate, has issued an “unreserved apology” for the malicious prosecution of two innocent men involved in the sale of Rangers FC.
The estimated cost to the taxpayer of this outrageous episode is now approaching £40 million. If this happened in a private company the whole board of directors would be sacked and declared unfit for office in future, but I see that, according to Mr Wolffe, nobody is really to blame, no sackings have taken place and the usual weasel words of the civil service have been used – “lessons have been learned”.
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There is no excuse for this and it must not be brushed under the table. The whole episode demands the immediate resignation of the Lord Advocate and the investigation and reform of every part of his incompetent department, preferably under an independent judge.
James Duncan
Edinburgh
LENIN astutely observed that, “in Britain, steal a loaf of bread and go to jail, but steal a railway and go to the House of Lords”. Lenin could well have said about Scotland, “administer the affairs of a failed football club and probably go to jail, but launch a malicious prosecution and the Lord Advocate just has to say sorry and he and his staff keep their jobs, generous salaries and pensions, pay out £24 million of taxpayers' money in compensation and the Lord Advocate still gets to attend Scottish Government Cabinet meetings”. Only in Scotland!
Jim Stewart
Musselburgh
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