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Important Information Requested for High Court on 28th August 2008
(August 19, 2008)Dianne Drysdale
I have looked out a series of emails from CI Andrew
MacLean which I believe clearly set out his position in relation to the criminal
complaint made to Northern Constabulary in October 2007. If you are in any doubt
I will also send my record of the meeting held on 21 March 2008 in which CI
MacLean sets out the parameters of his investigation, who is to be interviewed
and the steps he may consider in relation to securing evidence. Given the
seriousness of these criminal allegations it is simply not good enough for Mr
Dunn to dismiss them never having seen the evidence. Given that CI MacLean
is confirming to Mr Dunn the investigation never happened he appears to have
deliberately misled me into believing it would happen or someone has prevented
CI MacLean from completing his investigation as he intended. It also leaves the
situation were the evidence that convinced CI MacLean to start interviewing
Sheriff Principal Sir Stephen Young, Sheriff Derek Pyle, Justice Simon Fraser et
al remains to be independently scrutinised to establish its veracity before the
SCCRC referral is heard at the High Court on 28 August 2008.
I look forward to the Justice
Ministers intervention as a matter of urgency.
Stuart Hunt
----- Original Message -----
From: Maclean, Andrew
To: 'Stuart Hunt'
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: Criminal complaint (NOT PROTECTIVELY
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Mr Hunt
No, I am not saying Northern Constabulary cannot
investigate this complaint.
As I tried to explain at our meeting, your complaint
involves criminal allegations against police officers therefore according to
procedures for dealing with criminal allegations against police officers such
allegations require to be referred to the Area Procurator Fiscal in the first
instance. I required to review your previous complaints made against police
officers to ascertain whether the points you were raising had already been dealt
with or not. This took a considerable amount of time given the extent of the
previous matters you raised.
I have concluded that you have made fresh allegations of
corrupt practice against police officers combined with associated allegations
against the other individuals.The matter will have to be investigated in its
entirety as your allegations infer collusion between different parties.
Therefore any further investigation will address all aspects of your complaint
collectively. The normal manner for reporting such allegations if they did not
involve police officers would be to report to the District PF. However, the APF
has jurisdisction in the investigation of crime committed by police officers
which you allege. The APF also, I understand, has a remit for other criminal
investigations therefore it is the sensible route to progress this matter in the
first instance.
Therefore I have referred the entire matter to the APF. I
have not yet interviewed anyone in regard to your allegations. I apologise if
you feel excessive time is being taken but I am intent on ensuring this case is
brought to a proper conclusion and all points raised can be properly addressed.
As, I think you said yourself, there are a lot of wider issues and complexities
to understand.
Your silence on my request in regard to the recent issues
with Mr Latham leads me to advise Inverness Area Command to task officers to
attend and interview regarding these matters.
Andrew MacLean
From: Stuart Hunt [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 17 January 2008 17:24
To: Maclean, Andrew
Subject: Criminal complaint
CI Maclean
I have been digesting what was discussed at our
meeting.
There are a number of points which you could
possibly clarify. In the first instance are you saying that Northern
Constabulary cannot investigate this criminal complaint and as such the
complaint cannot proceed in the normal manner ? I would be grateful if you could
eloborate on the reasoning why Northern Constabulary have referred, what appears
to be a criminal complaint amounting to corruption, to the APF. I am also
assuming that in the two month period that has elapsed since I gave a statement
on 12 November 2007, the complaint has not been put to any of the individuals
identified in the complaint and no one has been interviewed or
questioned ?
Stuart Hunt
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