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PeterCherbi · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 126 Location: Edinburgh

They haven't learned much on how to respond to issues of injustice, but publishing this material and encouraging others to do so will help to throw the spotlight on the Executive and the people who are part of that injustice - prolonging the suffering of members of the public who are illegitimately asking for help because they have nowhere else to turn to.

If the SNP Executive don't ultimately do something positive on this issue - then squarely gone is their claim to be a break from the past.

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My blog on issues of injustice in Scotland A Diary of Injustice in Scotland by Peter Cherbi

Injustice Scotland Campaign website : Injustice Scotland

freethekillie2 · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 309

thanks for the reply mr salmond!
oh sorry i have not had one yet?

This email has been sent to Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP from the Scottish Parliament's Internet site

Sender's Name: kevin donald
Sender's Address:, bellfield kilmarnock.
ayrshire,

Sender's Postcode:
Sender's Email: kevinslpp@aol.com
Sender's Telephone Number: 01563

Sender's Message: I would urge and plead that you give another look at the case of annie borjesson!

all her family want is a fai to find out if there was foul play.

please help a family that can not get on with life till they know the truth!

thank's and best wishes
freethekillie2.

kevin.

annie's website!

http://www.annierockstar.com

THIS WAS SENT 12/10/2007

allan mcleod · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 78

FAO
Justice Secretary
Lord Advocate
Solicitor General.
First Minister.

22 Oct 2007.

MURDER OF KEVIN MCLEOD. WICK 1997

Dear Sir / Madam,

Kevins parents and I his uncle would be grateful if at least one or all of you would show some compassion, dignity and respect to a grieving family fighting for justice by personally becoming involved in this utter "Shambles" created by Northern Constabulary Police Force.

We have for 10 years had delaying tactics, barriers erected and nothing but disrespect not only from Northern Constabulary but also crown office officials.( Enough Is Enough.)

Mr Macdonald the PF Instructed police to conduct a murder inquiry after the patholigist informed him that the injuries Kevin sustained was consistent with "A Kicking" received several hours before death and prior to entering the water and that the injuries in themselves would have been fatal.

The police then dramatically failed to conduct a proper Murder enquiry by failing in near every police procedure in the police manual for a Murder Investigation as confirmed By Central Scotland Chief Constable Andrew Cameron in his redacted "Secret Report" released in January 2007 by Mr Kevin Dunion, the information commissioner only after pressure from the family.

Kevins case has to and must be re-investigated rigourisly by an independent police force which has the experience, integrity and ability to investigate a murder Investigation which Northern Constabulary without doubt has not got.

This case which is still high profile with the press and media and which has been the subject of two television documentaries must now have your personnal intervention to end this farcical shambles and hopefully convict those who we believe was responsible for murdering Kevin.

Your "Personnal Intervention" in this case would be welcomed and appreciated by Kevins parents and I.

Yours Sincerely

Mr Allan Mcleod.

allan mcleod · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 78

FAO - Mr A. Salmond
First Minister.

12 November 2007,

DEATH OF KEVIN MCLEOD.

Dear Mr Salmond,

I refer to my attached letter of 22 October 2007 of which to date you have failed to respond.

The reason my family, friends and I voted for you and your party was due to your policies that you promised if elected, but moreso you yourself appeared to be an honest, determined and down to earth person in your support when campaigning along side the Cod Crusaders.

We all agreed that you was indeed the right person to change Scotland for the better.

Therefore, that is why my family and I agreed to contact you in the hope that you and or Mr Macaskill will personally intervene regarding this Utter Shambles and Nightmare that Northern Constabulary Police Force has created regarding both their seriously flawed and botched Murder investigation in relation to Kevins Horrific death, also our subsequent complaints which was neither lodged or registered by Northern Constabulary, but completely and simply ignored.

Therefore my family and I would welcome if you as First Minister would show some Compassion Dignity and Respect to a grieving family fighting for justice by at the very least acknowledging and or responding to our attached letter of concern.

Your response regarding my familys letter of concern would be respected and appreciated.

Yours Sincerely
Mr Allan Mcleod.

allan mcleod · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 78

KEVIN MCLEOD CASE.
I have today just recevied a response (below) from the Police Powers,Performance and Resources Division, in response to the above two letters which was addressed to the First Minister. ( Talk about Corruption) It Stinks.!! The very people we are fighting against receives our correspondence. Maybe Im wrong but is the First Minister not breaking the Data Protection Act (section 3 Cool

by disclosing personal details to a third party?
(The very party we are fighting Against) Also slight mistake in their letter should read (Nephew) not Son.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST FOLKS !!! - A CORRUPT SYSTEM.

Letter Reads as Follows ------

Dear Mr Mcleod,
Thank you for your emails to the First Minister and Mr MacAskill dated 22 22 October 2007 and for your letter to the First Minister dated 12 November. Your emails and letters have been passed to the Police and Community Safety Directorate at the Scottish Government and I have been asked to reply on Ministers behalf.

We have read your emails carefully about the tragic loss of your son Kevin and appreciate the importance you attach to your request for personal intervention by Scottish Ministers. However, the Police(Scotland) act 1967 clearly defines the roles of Scottish Ministers and Chief Constables, and makes it clear that Chief Constables are entirely responsible for Operational matters affecting their force including complaints against their own officers.

Neither the First Minister Nor Mr MacAskill can intervene or comment on Individual cases. I hope that you will appreciate that it is therefore not appropriate for them to Personally intervene in these ciircumstances.
I am sorry that my reply could not be more helpful.

Yours Sincerely
Lynsey Surtees.

Al · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:

Neither the First Minister Nor Mr MacAskill can intervene or comment on Individual cases.

Absolute bollocks!

As i said previously, they can and do intervene when it suits their own self-promoting / serving political ends.

Allan is of course spot on in calling the system corrupt ... writ large. And that corrupt system is destined to remain so whilst Salmond and MacAskill remain in power ... corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely ... and, by God, are these two men as corrupt as they come. Every case highlighted on this forum over these past 7 months now proves that beyond any doubt.

The question now is, what the hell can be done to either get these two "great, good and honest men" (of and for their buddies in the corrupt Scottish establishment) to take any positive action on all these cases or to hound them the hell out of office from the positions of power and great privilege they now hold?

In the meantime, Messrs Salmond and MacAskill:

A plague on both your houses and SHAME ON YOU for your indifference, inaction and constant protection of the many sacred cows involved in the Kevin McLeod murder cover-up ... and for your inaction on all the cases repeatedly highlighted on this forum. Absolutely despicable and unforgivable.

Still waiting on these very damning files (well buried and hidden from public gaze at MacAskill's constituency office at SNP HQ) guys...

http://shirleymckie.myfastforum.org/sutra472.php#472

http://shirleymckie.myfastforum.org/sutra475.php#475

allan mcleod · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 78

Yes AL, How right you are. It appears you, I and many others on this forum are without any doubt whatsoever fighting a corrupt and rotten to the core Justice system.

As you quite rightly said they can and do intervene when it suits their own self-promoting / serving political ends. Oh Yes.

The Problem With the Justice System in Scotland is that they, Justice Secretary, Lord Advocate, Crown Officials, PFs, Chief Constables, and Complaints Commissioner all Pee in the same pot.

How do we over come this Scenario. ???

What was I thinking of voting for Salmond And MacAskill, thinking that they were both reliable, honest to their word men.

How wrong I was !! They are just as corrupt as Maconnel & Jamieson.

Is there anyone out there that we on this forum can trust ??

Al · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:20 am Post subject:

We fighting injustice have no chance

Looks like it Wullie ... especially when we have a First Minister, Alex Salmond, who went to the lengths he did to protect and cover up for his colleague, Kenny MacAskill, in the run up to the Scottish elections last May. Then he has the audacity to appoint MODERATED.......... as our Cabinet Secretary FOR JUSTICE (a misnomer if ever there was one) and continues to cover up for MODERATED....................over the past year.

Anything to avoid a scandal involving his good buddy (who was a shoe-in for the "Justice" portfolio) just before the Scottish election, isn't that right Mr Salmond?! ...

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This letter (and many others) is already in the public domain ... and with several of our "respected" journalists and media outlets...

Pity the SNP, those Brown Shirts at HQ, have seen to it that the case is "CENSORED" ... Welcome to censorship Scotland under the Scottish MODERATED...........

Letter No.1 - of 3 (prior to the dissolution of the last parliament ... and they covered it all up because they knew the scandal could ruin their chances of gaining power on 4 May 2007 ... so this is how i knew all along that you will get nowhere with these accessory to [b]MODERATED........on injustice[/b] ... and this case proves it beyond any doubt)

Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MP
Leader of the SNP
House of Commons
Westminster
London
SW1A 0AA

12 February 2007

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 a formal request for the return of confidential photographs and files pertaining to the case of my disabled, abused and ill-treated son was made of your friend and colleague, the SNP Justice Spokesman, Kenny MacAskill MSP. The same request was then made of your friend and colleague, the SNP Deputy Leader, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, after it became patently clear (in his email response on Thursday 18 January 2007) that Mr MacAskill would not co-operate or adhere to this legitimate request. Ms Sturgeon completely ignored these subsequent requests too.

Would you please see to it, as the Leader of the SNP (and potentially the next First Minister of Scotland) with the power to make things happen amongst your ranks, that these confidential, harrowing and disturbing photographs (and the relevant requested files) are returned to my family at the earliest opportunity. These photographs and files do not belong to Mr MacAskill or the SNP. They are the property of my family.

I would like this matter fully resolved before the dissolution of the Holyrood Parliament at the end of March. The photographs and files requested can be sent to me by Special Delivery post (I will reimburse the SNP for the cost of postage if required) or collected from your HQ on McDonald Road – I.D. or a mandate will be provided on request.

Please don’t make a frail 83-year-old lady, now in the winter of her life (a life which has, along with my family’s, been utterly devastated by the ill-treatment, abuse and neglect of a disabled loved one), fight and beg for what is rightly her family’s property – not that of a politician or political party.

I am currently staying with friends in the Scottish Borders, but my mail and answer machine are checked regularly. You can therefore contact me by writing to my home address or by leaving a message on my answer machine.

I look forward to hearing from you (not Mr MacAskill or Ms Sturgeon) in early course.

Thank you for your time and co-operation with these very serious matters.

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... still waiting on that reply to letter No. 13 of Thursday 14 February 2008, Mr Salmond.

You know the phone number and central Edinburgh address (just down from your palatial Edinburgh residence at Bute House) by now...

http://shirleymckie.myfastforum.org/sutra1301.php#1301

http://petercherbi.blogspot.com/2...land_08.html#c8926289071206169360
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Do not be afraid of them therefore. For everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops.

Al · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject:

These are all the lies, deceit, prevarication, intransigence, repeated self-protection and covering up one Edinburgh family has had to endure at the murky hands of [b]MODERATED.........and this very corrupt SNP-ruling "Government" since they came to power 10 months ago, last May 2007 - and for YEARS before that as you can see ... from August 1999, when that MODERATED.......... became involved.

The "murderous cover up" in the Mr X case goes on... [/b]

As per letter of 12 February 2007 above :

In a message dated 18/01/2007 16:21:38 GMT Standard Time, David.Hutchison@scottish.parliament.uk writes:

Dear

Kenny MacAskill MSP has received your letter of the 16th of January and has asked me, as his constituency officer, to respond on his behalf.

I am afraid that we will not be able to provide you with the material you have requested.

Regards
Davie Hutchison

Davie Hutchison

Parliamentary/Constituency Officer

for Kenny MacAskill MSP
Tel: (0131) 348 5721
Fax:(0131) 348 5944
The Scottish Parliament
Office M1.07
Holyrood, Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

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Subject: Re: letter of the 16th of January 2007
Date: 18/01/2007
To: David.Hutchison@scottish.parliament.uk, Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk

Dear Mr Hutchison,

Re: letter of the 16th of January 2007

Many thanks for your prompt response on behalf of Mr MacAskill.

You do not give a reason for not being able to provide the material ****'s family seek. Has it been mislaid or been destroyed? Perhaps you might elucidate. Failing that, and if i don't hear back, then i will ensure that a member of his family contacts you instead of myself - who, perhaps for confidentiality reasons, you may not wish to engage with.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards

cc. Kenny MacAskill MSP, SNP Justice Spokesman

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"Sod Off!" Reply No.7 :

SNP
www.snp.org

Scottish National Party
107 McDonald Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4NW

Dr Duncan Ross
National Secretary

Direct Dial 0131 525 8903
Fax 0131 525 8901
Email national.secretary@snp.org

1 February 2008 [Rcvd Thurs 7 Feb]

Dear Mrs

Alex Salmond’s office has been in touch with me regarding your letter of 30 November, which requests files and photographs held by the SNP. There are no such files or photographs held by the Scottish National Party.

If you have given materials to Mr MacAskill in the past, then I suggest that you contact his parliamentary office with regard to these.

I am afraid therefore that neither I, or Alex Salmond as Party leader, can be of assistance in locating such files.

Yours sincerely,

Duncan Ross
National Secretary

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Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MP / MSP
First Minister of Scotland
Constituency Office
84 North Street
Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
AB51 4QX

Thursday 14 February 2008

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP - Letter No.13 (Since 12 February 2007) Requesting Same

I refer to the letter (a photo copy reply) from your National Secretary, Dr Duncan Ross, dated Friday 1 February 2008, which I only received last Thursday 7 February. This was in response to my letter to you (No.10) dated 30 November 2007, copies of which had to be sent to you another twice (13 December 2007, No.11, and 24 January 2008, No.12) to even elicit this pass the buck, fob off response from your National Secretary … pass the buck and fob off yet again.

In his letter, Duncan Ross states, as you have done from the outset, that: “There are no such files or photographs held by the Scottish National Party”. LIES AGAIN Mr Salmond. He then goes on to tell me to contact Mr MacAskill, your supposed “Justice” Secretary, yet you have known from my first contact with you that I have no intentions of contacting this despicable man, MODERATED................the most heinous neglect and abuse of my son from the first contacts with him in August 1999. Duncan Ross then ends his letter by saying that neither he, or you as Party Leader, can be of any assistance in locating any such files. So, you are unable to talk to your friend and “Justice” Secretary about this case; about these very harrowing, damning and incriminating case files and photographs; and you have never done so since being approached in 2006 by others, and by me last year? If you really expect me to believe that, then you really must think that this lady came up the Clyde in a Banana boat.

It is now exactly one calendar year since I first wrote to you about my son’s case – copy enclosed yet again. In all that time I have been met, in your responses to my previous 12 letters, with nothing but self-protection, buck passing, prevarication and downright lies from you and your staff. It’s got to stop Mr Salmond and I won’t go away until this matter is properly, fully, compassionately, humanely and finally resolved by YOU (as Scotland’s First Minister with full responsibility for your appointed “Justice” Secretary, your parliamentarians, your staff and your party) once and for all.

I therefore repeat now :

The formal request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP (currently being unlawfully withheld from my family by the SNP, and very well hidden and buried in [b]MODERATED....... constituency office at SNP HQ on McDonald road, right beside your Duncan Ross) and for a full and wholly impartial independent inquiry into the “care”, ill-treatment, neglect and abuse of my son over all these years still stands – exactly one year on from my initial contact with you.[/b]

Yet again, I sincerely hope my position and views are perfectly clear to you.

Thank you for your time and full co-operation.

I look forward to hearing from you personally in early course … and not just a couple of lines and a few words fobbing me off or more buck passing once again.

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"Sod Off!" Reply No.8 (and this reply, as you can see, is exactly the same letter as the last) :

SNP
www.snp.org

Scottish National Party
107 McDonald Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4NW

Dr Duncan Ross
National Secretary

Direct Dial 0131 525 8903
Fax 0131 525 8901
Email national.secretary@snp.org

21 February 2008 [Rcvd Mon 25 Feb]

Dear Mrs

Alex Salmond’s office has been in touch with me regarding your letter of 30 November, which requests files and photographs held by the SNP. There are no such files or photographs held by the Scottish National Party.

If you have given materials to Mr MacAskill in the past, then I suggest that you contact his parliamentary office with regard to these.

I am afraid therefore that neither I, or Alex Salmond as Party leader, can be of assistance in locating such files.

Yours sincerely,

Duncan Ross
National Secretary

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Messrs Salmond, MacAskill and Ross : You have the home address, home phone number, email address and mobile number should you wish to try to resolve / end this matter ... ONCE and FOR ALL...

Serious doubts over Kenny MacAskill's "Justice"

http://shirleymckie.myfastforum.org/sutra1302.php#1302
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Do not be afraid of them therefore. For everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops.

Al · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject:

Unreserved Apology

Firstly, let me publicly on this forum unreservedly aplogise to anyone who may have been offended by an image i put up in the wee small hours of Saturday the 1st of March. I can assure you i detest evil tyrannical dictators as much as anyone else does and it was meant as a satirical jibe, though making a point. I took the image from here ( http://images.google.com/images?g...d+Cartoons&btnG=Search+Images ), 3 down on the right, and posted a few words under the picture implying the same. Again, i sincerely apologise to anyone who may have been offended by that image and my remarks underneath (though i make no such apology to the parties concerned) and i take full responsibilty for that and all my postings on this forum over the past 10 months, since Messrs Salmond and MacAskill came to power. They are of course free to take what action they think necessary at any time - as i have challenged them to do several times thus far.

How easy it is for human beings to apologise and use a very simple 5 letter word - SORRY ... and actually mean it. That is until there is a massive lawsuit hovering in the background and the word SORRY no longer exists ... not in the vocabulary of the guilty parties who, by being forced to apologise and say that simple word SORRY (and actually mean it), are admitting responsibilty for their wrong-doing ... and will have to cough up some dough ... or a lot of dough in some cases. So usually the suits keep schtum and the “good name” of the organisation you are taking on will ALWAYS come first, procrastinate (and procrastinate, and procrastinate,… ), be very well protected (self-protection / preservation writ large), close ranks at every level and, yes, lie and cover up to avoid the big pay out – at ALL costs … YOUR cost.

I know. I too have seen it first hand with the big institutions and organisations here in Scotland. It is deeply ingrained in our “culture”, and is endemic throughout ALL our “established” (establishment) institutions alas.

“We are [indeed] the self-preservation society… ”.

Ain't that right Messrs MacAskill and Salmond?! ...

You know the central Edinburgh address, home phone number, mobile number and email address by now "gents"...

___________________________________________

Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MP / MSP
First Minister of Scotland
Constituency Office
17 Maiden Street
Peterhead
Aberdeenshire
AB42 1EE

Thursday 6 September 2007

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP - Letter No. 4 (Since 12 February 2007) Requesting Same

I wrote to you re the above 7 months ago on 12 February, and then a further two letters on 1 and 9 March.

I am writing to you once again seeking the return of the specified file documents from the SNP's Office, which for the avoidance of any doubt whatsoever, are my sole property.

Given the circumstances of the issues I have raised, please see my request for the return of these files, intact, is handled with the courtesy and speed my request deserves.

My request for the return of these documents has to date been very poorly handled, to the point where it would appear that members of SNP staff are withholding my own property in an attempt to interdict my access to justice.

I am saddened the SNP seem to have let me down badly on this very serious and unresolved matter.

Thank you for your time and full co-operation.

I look forward to hearing from you personally in early course.

Resent on Friday 21 September 2007 [to both his constituency and Scots parly]

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Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MP / MSP
First Minister of Scotland
Constituency Office
84 North Street
Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
AB51 4QX

Thursday 20 March 2008

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP - Letter No.15 (Since 12 February 2007) Requesting Same

I refer to the letter from your Office Manager, Hannah Bardell, dated Friday 7 March, which I only received last Wednesday 12 March. This was in response to my 14th letter to you over the past 13 months in which I request the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP and for a full and wholly impartial independent inquiry into the “care”, ill-treatment, neglect and abuse of my son over all these years – the full case circumstances, event by event.

I note that, yet again, you refuse to respond to me personally or answer my questions about whether you or Ms Sturgeon discussed this case with Mr MacAskill and when you talked to him about the case. I also note that Hannah Bardell ends her very dismissive response by stating: As this is Mr Salmond’s constituency office, parliamentary rules dictate that we only intervene in constituency cases. Therefore, I am writing to inform you that any further correspondence to this office will not receive a response. How convenient. This is precisely what Ms Sturgeon said in her letter to me 3 years ago, on 7 April 2005.

When I first wrote to you over 13 months ago on 12 February 2007 (and subsequently on 1 and 9 March 2007), 7 weeks prior to the dissolution of parliament and 3 months prior to the election itself, I was writing appealing for your help and intervention in this case “as the Leader of the SNP (and potentially the next First Minister of Scotland) with the power to make things happen amongst your ranks” and for “this matter [to be] fully resolved before the dissolution of the Holyrood Parliament at the end of March [2007]”. A reminder of my first letter to you is attached yet again.

You knew fine that given my and my family’s justified anger at Mr MacAskill’s actions and inactions in this case (from the very outset in August 1999, over 8½ years ago), I had no intentions of contacting him ever again, especially after a further 6 letters appealing for his help and intervention going to his office between 19 January and 20 June 2005, and then another 7 letters between 27 March 2006 and 16 January 2007 – not including the letter copied to him by Ms Sturgeon of 18 August 2006, which I have now copied to you twice.

Whilst I accept that the tone of my letters to you became angry and accusatory, from my sixth letter dated 27 September 2007 onwards, I can make no apologies to you for that at this point in time – especially given your continued procrastination, intransigence, criminal collusion and concealment, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and theft of my family’s property.

I would have continued to admire and respect you Mr Salmond had you done the right, fair, just and decent thing in this appalling case, when I first approached you over 13 months ago seeking your help and intervention. You had ample opportunity on 3 occasions prior to the dissolution of parliament at the end of March 2007 to try to help build bridges and resolve matters. Instead you decided, no doubt with the pending Scottish elections at the forefront of your mind, to just fob me off and hope the case would go away. You and / or Mr MacAskill should have taken a far more conciliatory, humane and compassionate approach to matters and called me and / or other very concerned parties into your offices at SNP HQ on McDonald Road (or into Bute House at No. 6 Charlotte Square, but a stone’s throw away from here just up the road) to try to discuss and resolve matters, and unreservedly apologise for what has happened at the murky hands of the many unaccountable individuals, agencies and Edinburgh / Scottish authorities involved in what was allowed to happen to my son over all these unimaginable, unbelievable, neglectful, destroyed and lost years. But it would appear that the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation just doesn’t enter the vocabulary or thoughts of the two powerful men who now rule and govern Scotland with an iron fist.

This very serious matter is far from being resolved to any satisfactory conclusion and my mantra remains the same as when I first contacted you over 13 months ago:

The formal request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP (currently being unlawfully withheld from my family by the SNP, and very well hidden and buried in Mr MacAskill’s constituency office at SNP HQ on McDonald road, right beside your Duncan Ross) and for a full and wholly impartial independent inquiry into the “care”, ill-treatment, neglect and abuse of my son over all these years still stands – OVER 13 MONTHS (and 15 letters) ON from my initial contact with you.

For goodness sake Mr Salmond, please show this very frail and failing 84-year-old lady (whose life has been completely ruined by what was allowed to happen to her son) that you are the man of "Wisdom, Justice, Compassion, Integrity" I once thought you were, and not just another promise the earth Scottish politico who has let himself be corrupted by the trappings of power … for the sake of myself and all fellow Scots who are currently suffering the most cruel and appalling injustices at the hands of the Scottish authorities, and a beleaguered and greatly discredited justice system.

Thank you for your time and full co-operation.

I look forward to hearing from you personally in early course.

As with all previous letters to you, this letter will be copied to both your constituency office and the Scottish Parliament.

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Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MSP / MP
First Minister of Scotland
The Scotttish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Thursday 3 April 2008

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP - Letter No.16 (Since 12 February 2007) Requesting Same

I refer to the letter from your Office Manager, Hannah Bardell, dated Friday 7 March, which I only received on Wednesday 12 March. This was in response to my 14th letter to you over the past 14 months in which I request the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP and for a full and wholly impartial independent inquiry into the “care”, ill-treatment, neglect and abuse of my son over all these years – the full case circumstances, event by event.

I note that, yet again, you refuse to respond to me personally or answer my questions about whether you or Ms Sturgeon discussed this case with Mr MacAskill and when you talked to him about the case. I also note that Hannah Bardell ends her very dismissive response by stating: As this is Mr Salmond’s constituency office, parliamentary rules dictate that we only intervene in constituency cases. Therefore, I am writing to inform you that any further correspondence to this office will not receive a response. How convenient. This is precisely what Ms Sturgeon said in her letter to me 3 years ago, on 7 April 2005.

When I first wrote to you 14 months ago on 12 February 2007 (and subsequently on 1 and 9 March 2007), 7 weeks prior to the dissolution of parliament and 3 months prior to the election itself, I was writing appealing for your help and intervention in this case “as the Leader of the SNP (and potentially the next First Minister of Scotland) with the power to make things happen amongst your ranks” and for “this matter [to be] fully resolved before the dissolution of the Holyrood Parliament at the end of March [2007]”. A reminder of my first letter to you is attached yet again.

You knew fine that given my and my family’s justified anger at Mr MacAskill’s actions and inactions in this case (from the very outset in August 1999, over 8½ years ago), I had no intentions of contacting him ever again, especially after a further 6 letters appealing for his help and intervention going to his office between 19 January and 20 June 2005, and then another 7 letters between 27 March 2006 and 16 January 2007 – not including the letter copied to him by Ms Sturgeon of 18 August 2006, which I have now copied to you twice.

Whilst I accept that the tone of my letters to you became angry and accusatory, from my sixth letter dated 27 September 2007 onwards, I can make no apologies to you for that at this point in time – especially given your continued procrastination, intransigence, criminal collusion and concealment, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and theft of my family’s property.

I would have continued to admire and respect you Mr Salmond had you done the right, fair, just and decent thing in this appalling case, when I first approached you 14 months ago seeking your help and intervention. You had ample opportunity on 3 occasions prior to the dissolution of parliament at the end of March 2007 to try to help build bridges and resolve matters. Instead you decided, no doubt with the pending Scottish elections at the forefront of your mind, to just fob me off and hope the case would go away. You and / or Mr MacAskill should have taken a far more conciliatory, just, fair, humane and compassionate approach to matters and called me and / or other very concerned parties into your offices at SNP HQ on McDonald Road (or into Bute House at No. 6 Charlotte Square, both but a stone’s throw away from here) to try to discuss and resolve matters, and unreservedly apologise for what has happened at the murky hands of the many unaccountable individuals, agencies and Edinburgh / Scottish authorities involved in what was allowed to happen to my son over all these unimaginable, unbelievable, neglectful, destroyed and lost years. But it would appear that the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation just doesn’t enter the vocabulary or thoughts of the two powerful men who now rule and govern Scotland with an iron fist.

This very serious matter is far from being resolved to any satisfactory conclusion and my mantra remains the same as when I first contacted you 14 months ago:

The formal request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP (currently being unlawfully withheld from my family by the SNP, and very well hidden and buried in Mr MacAskill’s constituency office at SNP HQ on McDonald road, right beside your Duncan Ross) and for a full and wholly impartial independent inquiry into the “care”, ill-treatment, neglect and abuse of my son over all these years still stands – 14 MONTHS (and 16 letters) ON from my initial contact with you.

For goodness sake Mr Salmond, please show this very frail and failing 84-year-old lady (whose life has been completely ruined by what was allowed to happen to her son) that you are the man of "Wisdom, Justice, Compassion, Integrity" I once thought you were, and not just another promise the earth Scottish politico who has let himself be corrupted by the trappings of power … for the sake of myself and all fellow Scots who are currently suffering the most cruel and appalling injustices at the hands of the Scottish authorities, and a beleaguered and greatly discredited justice system.

Thank you for your time and full co-operation.

I look forward to hearing from you personally in early course.

As with all previous letters to you, this letter will be copied to both your constituency office and the Scottish Parliament. [Resent Thursday 3 April 2008 – cc: MacAskill]

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Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MP
Leader of the SNP
House of Commons
Westminster
London
SW1A 0AA

12 February 2007

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 a formal request for the return of confidential photographs and files pertaining to the case of my disabled, abused and ill-treated son was made of your friend and colleague, the SNP Justice Spokesman, Kenny MacAskill MSP. The same request was then made of your friend and colleague, the SNP Deputy Leader, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, after it became patently clear (in his email response on Thursday 18 January 2007) that Mr MacAskill would not co-operate or adhere to this legitimate request. Ms Sturgeon completely ignored these subsequent requests too.

Would you please see to it, as the Leader of the SNP (and potentially the next First Minister of Scotland) with the power to make things happen amongst your ranks, that these confidential, harrowing and disturbing photographs (and the relevant requested files) are returned to my family at the earliest opportunity. These photographs and files do not belong to Mr MacAskill or the SNP. They are the property of my family.

I would like this matter fully resolved before the dissolution of the Holyrood Parliament at the end of March. The photographs and files requested can be sent to me by Special Delivery post (I will reimburse the SNP for the cost of postage if required) or collected from your HQ on McDonald Road – I.D. or a mandate will be provided on request.

Please don’t make a frail 83-year-old lady, now in the winter of her life (a life which has, along with my family’s, been utterly devastated by the ill-treatment, abuse and neglect of a disabled loved one), fight and beg for what is rightly her family’s property – not that of a politician or political party.

I am currently staying with friends in the Scottish Borders, but my mail and answer machine are checked regularly. You can therefore contact me by writing to my home address or by leaving a message on my answer machine.

I look forward to hearing from you (not Mr MacAskill or Ms Sturgeon) in early course.

Thank you for your time and co-operation with these very serious matters.

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A FINAL APPEAL to the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond MSP / MP, for the TRUTH, JUSTICE and RECONCILIATION in the appalling case of Mr X ... the brain damaged victim who was abused, ill-treated and neglected by the Edinburgh / Scottish authorities for 20 YEARS.

Shame on them ALL.

Private and Confidential

Alex Salmond MSP / MP
First Minister of Scotland
The Scotttish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Monday 5 May 2008

Dear Mr Salmond,

Request for the return of confidential photographs and files from the SNP - Letter No.17 (Since 12 February 2007) Requesting Same

Thank you for your last letter of 3 weeks ago. My apologies for this delay in responding, but I have been very unwell and can’t deal with matters as I would ordinarily prefer.

I have now copied my last letter to you of Thursday 3 April to Mr MacAskill twice, but get no response.

Perhaps you could now intervene in this very serious case of the terrible abuse, neglect and ill-treatment of my son over the past 19½ years – as I have been asking (begging and pleading with you in effect) over the past 15 months, since my first letter of 12 February 2007.

Thank you for your time and full co-operation.

I look forward to hearing from you personally in early course.

As with all previous letters to you, this letter will be copied to both your constituency office and the Scottish Parliament.

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Some quotes from this "murderous and heinous" covered up case ... at the murky hands of Messrs Salmond, MacAskill and their SNP "Government":

"The best years of his life have been completely wasted, ruined and destroyed and can never be given back to him... NOTHING will ever compensate for what's happened to him now...

"I'm glad to see I wasn't the only journalist who failed ****, although I would like to be able to say that someone in my profession had helped him... "

Freelance "Investigative" Journalist
March 2005

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Yet still nothing was done. To the detached observer it seems at best incredible, and at worst heinously negligent, that no-one properly intervened.

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When you are fully informed of any wrongdoing, criminality and injustice, and you choose not to properly act and intervene to put an immediate stop to that wrongdoing, criminality and injustice, then you too are undoubtedly complicit, culpable and guilty for your actions or inactions.

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To sin by SILENCE when they should protest makes cowards of men

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil [and INJUSTICE] is for good men to do nothing

Indeed ... no names, but there are many out there, those so-called "champions against injustice" and "brave, bold, respected, honest and investigative" journalists, who should search their consciences over this appalling case of abuse, neglect and INJUSTICE ... and hang their heads in SHAME (... on you all).
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Do not be afraid of them therefore. For everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops.