You will not recall an earlier time when the Lord Advocate made an unreserved apology to parliament and the Scottish taxpayer for a wrongful prosecution because it has never happened before. Yesterday, the incumbent of that position since 2016, James Wolffe QC, did just that over the persecution of Rangers’ administrators, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark. Each man received £10.5m compensation, an astonishing 20% of the annual Crown Office budget. The total cost of the fiasco is likely to exceed double this amount, possibly as high as £50m.
That’s not all. Last year Whitehouse and Clark settled an action for wrongful arrest against Police Scotland for a figure that those in power have decided you and I should never find out.
The case stood on the selective use of evidence. Police and prosecutors were in possession of the legendary Charlotte Fakes files, some of which proved Whitehouse and Clark were innocent of the charges, but those documents were not made available to the defence. It is the same modus operandi used to lock up the Guilford Four, who police had evidence of their innocence, but who spent 15 years in prison.
Roddy Dunlop, QC for Whitehouse, demanded answers as to why the arrests and subsequent prosecutions took place. He is not alone, although I suspect Mr Dunlop, you and I have a fair idea. The Crown acknowledged the prosecutions, which started in 2014, were “malicious” – a huge word for the Lord Advocate to use about his prosecution services.
What’s it to you? The criminal and prosecution service acted maliciously in the matter of who controlled the assets of a football club, in Scotland, between 2014 – 2018. The two administrators, their employer Duff & Phelps and those they associated with over the sale of Rangers assets, faced grassroots opposition to their actions.
You may wonder if the might of the Scottish state bent (which it did) in tandem with this opposition (which has yet to be determined). Opposition MSPs have called for a public inquiry, the Scottish Government do not want you to know what happened, so are opposed to this request. A status that will hold at least until May’s elections.
…..and they still ask why I’m not a member of the cult?
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game is on Sky , KO 20.00
CONEYBHOY
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Gene
Who would you have left out for Soro? Brown?
Brown or maybe Rogic
Did you know that a steak pie costs $1 in Jamaica and $2 in Trinidad &Tobago and $3 in the Bahamas, that’s the pie rates of the Caribbean,😄😊
you blew it THATS THE LYING KING,LAWELL AND LENNON ITSWHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
IT HAS ALLOWED HIM BE BOASTFUL
Bada
:-))))
I like the daft ones. Big Jimmy would be proud of that :-)
SAINT STIVS on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 2:00 PM
Aipple,
that was a good read early hours.
I am beginning to think there might be a C-Anon group of Attention seekers posting from remote places, with a bison headrest on , waving a spear and repeating the same things over and over and over and over.
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That me chuckle at work during a call. I need to pay more attention on calls.
The smallpox inoculation began in 1796 when an English doctor named Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox did not show any symptoms of smallpox after variolation.
The first experiment to test this theory involved milkmaid Sarah Nelmes and James Phipps, the 9 year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. The vaccine helps the body develop immunity to smallpox. It was successfully used to eradicate smallpox from the human population.
53 year ago prior tae emigrating we were required tae have the smallpox inoculation or we widnae be allowed intae the country.
I had a small cut on my face and having leaned against my wife’s arm through the night inoculated my face. This caused a severe reaction resulting in practically the whole summer on the sick and delaying our move by at least 6 months.
The following year we returned hame but 6 year after that decided tae come back, nae inoculation this time as in 1972 the disease was eradicated in the United States, Canada followed suit.
So although I had a bad reaction, 53 year after getting inoculated with cowpox and actually catching it, at the time only the 2nd person in UK history to do that, my story was allegedly in the Lancet, I have yet tae Moo.
Covid vaccines are running late here but when the opportunity arises we’ll be getting it.
MADMITCH @ 3:11pm.
I hear you. Lol.
For just north of £2.5 billion we got
– an eyesore
– 14 km of tram line @ £55,000 per metre
– 2.7 km of bridge @ £500,000 per metre
Perhaps instead of “we got” I should say “Edinburgh got”.
I assume pro rata infrastructure spend in the much larger populated greater Glasgow area is next on the list.
Team sheet latest…………………………meh
HOT SMOKED on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 2:47 PM
Well it sounds like the Lord Advocate was very anxious to avoid the case going to court where the evidence would be open to public scrutiny.
Celtic sell two right backs in the one window, 800K for El Hamed.
the clutha bar
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Game day,
Always have a bounce in my step looking forward to watching Celtic on game day, whether they are on form or not.
Barkas, Soro & Johnston for me tonight please.
B2B @ 4.23
When the Auld Reekie focused civil service were working up their proposals for City Regions they had to get creative to get Edinburgh climb up the population ladder.
Consequently the Edinburgh city region covers the city itself plus the Lothians / the Borders / Fife so that it can have a scale — just over a one million of a population that delivers £1.3bill in funding.
In contrast the funding for the Glasgow City Region wich includes Dumbarton / Inverclyde / Lanarkshire is in the region of £1.2bill despite having a bigger population / more industrial deacay / more deprivation.
So much for the power of Holyrood.
Public funding trough for Auld Reekie more like.
Plus they got that ridiculous bridge.
Boy from the Boyne – Me to.
Cannot 2ait to see the hoops tonight.
Came in from work there with a bounce in my step and as happy as Larry, Mrs David66 says ” what are you so happy about” playing it cool I said ” oh eh it was a good day at work” or I would have got the old, ” you are only happy when Celtic are playing crap”
Knowwhatbattlestofightcscs.
COYBIG
D :)
Cannot wait meant to be..
D :)
Why the long face?
Aug 298Hoof-hearted? You always got a good nosebag at the Stanley Bar
Why the long face? (Hoof-hearted? You always got a good nosebag at the Stanley Bar)
As a lover of pubs, it’s always sad to hear of one closing; especially when it is one with a long history – a last outpost of a once thriving community.
Hoof-hearted? You always got a good nosebag at the Stanley BarThe regulars set off on one of their Sunday runs, in the 1960s.
The Stanley Bar, in Kinning Park, has poured its last pint, put the towels over the taps, and called last orders.
A ‘Celtic shoap’ – a rarity so close to Ibrox – it was once the beating heart of the Irish diaspora in Kinning Park, and the favoured watering hole of the staff from the nearby Gray Dunn biscuit factory (I can still recall the delicious aroma which used to emanate from the factory).
Once surrounded by, and underneath, tenements, the bar – like the rest of old Kinning Park – took a hit when the M8 sliced its way through the area, with locals cast out to the fringes of the city. Many used to make the trip back into town – especially when there was a Celtic game on – to drink and blether in the same pub their parents and grandparents had drunk in. Like a shoogly tooth, the pub held on.
The bar was also a noted stop on the ‘Sub Crawl’, when raucous gangs of pissed up students would disturb the Kinning Park peace with their loud voices and demands for ‘exotic’ drinks (anything other than lager, heavy, stout, or whisky was considered ‘exotic’ in the Stanley).
In the ‘good old days’ of Sunday licensing, the pub regulars used to organise a weekly bus run; you had to travel more than five miles to be considered a ‘bone fide traveller’ to get a drink in a hotel.
The Byrne clan, John and Elaine, who have run the bar for the last 16 years, welcoming and feeding the regulars like family, have now decided to call time, and another Kinning Park corner will fall silent.
I raise a glass to them, and wish them well.
You can read more about the history of the bar on John Gorevan’s brilliant Old Glasgow Pubs site: https://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/stanley.html
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Whether I am happy after the game is another story…..
D :)
Though the Stanley bar was still open???
Thought Delaneys Dunky (Garry if you are lurking from SC, hope you are well my friend) and Big Rail Road Blues ( John same as Garry, if you are lurking hope you are well) used to meet up in there last year for a pint.
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Duff and Phelps
These guys are about as white as Colombian powder
Unanswered questions
– What were D+PH staff doing with Craig Whyte in advance of this work?
– Why were the assets valued so cheaply?
– Why would Administrators seek to purchase new footballers for a failing club?
– Why was SEVCO 5088 allowed preferred and exclusive status to purchase the assets in liquidation once the planned cut and shut CVA failed when an open auction would have returned more for creditors?
and most importantly
– Why did they sell the assets to SEVCO Scotland contrary to their legal agreement to sell to SEVCO 5088?
Up to their necks in this charade and the facilitator of the malfeasance
HH
Kris Boyd – not sure if this has already been mentioned…
https://rangers.vitalfootball.co.uk/wet-wipes-disgrace-imagine-crying-reaction-as-kris-boyd-wont-feature-on-sky-celtic-coverage-tonight/
Vaccinations someone has to be first even LEICSTER got the message [eventually]
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Rock Tree Bhoy,
Ha! Hopefully that petition has permently knocked Monster Munch off the box for all things Celtic!
David66 – enjoy the game!
Fast Track Notice of Complaint | Kemar Roofe, Player, Rangers FC
Wednesday 10 February 2021
Player: Kemar Roofe, Rangers FC
Match: Rangers FC v St Johnstone FC
Date: Wednesday 3 February 2021
Competition: Scottish Premiership
Disciplinary Rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 200: Where any one of the sending off offences of (A1) serious foul play, (A2) violent conduct, and (A3) spitting at an opponent or any other person is committed by a player at a match, but that sending off offence was not seen by any of the match officials at the time that it was committed, the mandatory suspension for that sending off offence as provided for in Annex C of the Judicial Panel Protocol shall be applied to the player.
Any Fast Track Notice of Complaint alleging a breach of this Rule shall be Determined by a Fast Track Tribunal subject to the provisions of Section 13.
Fast Track Tribunal Hearing: Wednesday 10 February 2021
Outcome: Proved. 2 match mandatory suspension, effective immediately to the player’s Recognised Team’s next 2 SPFL Premiership matches. (A1 Serious Foul Play).
HOT SMOKED on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 4:00 PM
Bada
:-))))
I like the daft ones. Big Jimmy would be proud of that :-)
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Yes, I did like that…and as for the Pie Makers…they have the Right to Earn a Crust !
LOL
HH Bhoys.
What do you call a Red Indian Virgin ?
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” SHY ANNE”…
LOL.
HH.
Dave King cant help himself, boasting about he has put us in our place and thats where we will be for the foreseeable future, and this is before they have actually won anything, then goes on to tell us how “King Kenny” helped him lure Stevie G to Ibrox, he really doesn’t like us does he, wonder why
ROCK TREE BHOY on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 5:01 PM
Kris Boyd – not sure if this has already been mentioned…
https://rangers.vitalfootball.co.uk/wet-wipes-disgrace-imagine-crying-reaction-as-kris-boyd-wont-feature-on-sky-celtic-coverage-tonight/
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See the wee new club urchins are upset because they have to listen to the constant pro-Celtic commentary from Andy Walker…I’d rather have Boyd.
HH
BGFC
BHOY FROM THE BOYNE on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 5:15 PM
Yip, fair cheered me up that, beating St Mirren would make it a great double🍀
Correct score Bets on…
Celtic to Win…” 3-2″ @ 22/1.
Celtic to Win..” 4-2″ @ 40/1.
Its a bit Crazy to back BOTH Bets….as at least One of the Bets is already beaten…but Hey…
I’m a Crazy kinda Guy.
HH.
BHOY FROM THE BOYNE on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 5:15 PM
No thanks, its that sleekit grin of his whenever he ever so subtly stick the knife in to us for the benefit of all the watching sevconians, a real rat bag
Andy Walker – he’s laughable and he knows it, no one takes him seriously.
sorry, that was for
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 10TH FEBRUARY 2021 5:20 PM
12 red cards for none against; there’s your proof paul67
shine down on us tonight Tommy!
Hi Bhoys
My thoughts on the D&P compo is it’s so high because it’s hush money. The powers that be don’t want or can’t afford for the true story to come out. After all the corruption goes straight to the heart of the fabric of scottish society as someone once said.
I hope the bhoys put on a show tonight and give some payback to the buddies.
I’m 60 and i’ll be more than happy to take my jag when the time comes. I just don’t get why people are wary of it. Surely if it makes the symptoms less critical even by a fraction it’s worth the risk?
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An Tearmann on 9th February 2021 10:29 pm
Sorry big mhan I was in my bed by the time you posted last night.
I love music it is the greatest escape from anything that troubles you. I think sometimes though my enjoyment of it is a little backward. When I was young I tended to enjoy what would have been seen as older peoples music, as I got older I enjoyed music aimed at younger people. Hence my strange and varied taste at times. So you asked for a tune here’s three from what my family consider to be my odd side. I hope you and your family are well and say hello to wee Eddie for me. I hope you like them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LXpnNKNxJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s-8mgTKMQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeYBU1cmWo
KEEP THE FAITH