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>>24643723

https://youtu.be/IVswZb2gW3Y

Police investigate ‘£1.5million missing from Scottish independence group’ with links to SNP

The Scottish Sun

476K subscribers

Jul 6, 2026 #snp #politics #indyref

A FORMER SNP branch secretary has reported independence campaign Yes Scotland to police claiming £1.5million went missing from its accounts.

David Henry, who was among the first police complainers about missing SNP funds that ultimately brought down Peter Murrell, has now turned his attention to quasi-independent organisation that led the Yes campaign in 2014.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16504632/scottish-independence-police-investigation-yes-campaign/

INDY CASH CLAIM Police investigate ‘£1.5million missing from Scottish independence group’ with links to SNP

Mark McLaughlin

5 Jul 2026

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Anonymous 07/07/26 (Tue) 00:27:45 fe3bae No.24797560

>>24782688

As always thank you for the bakering my friend. 🙏

>>24793981

I think so, hope so even.

It does seem to be going in the right direction, though in a somewhat pedestrian fashion. Hopefully the pace quickens.

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Anonymous 07/07/26 (Tue) 00:32:52 fe3bae No.24797576

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>>24797546

https://youtu.be/8VlaRvnEUaA

Fury as ‘terrified’ SNP to BLOCK parliament probe into Peter Murrell’s £400k fraud

The Scottish Sun

476K subscribers

4,828 views Jul 3, 2026 #nicolaSturgeon #snp #news

THE SNP is set to BLOCK a Holyrood committee inquiry into Peter Murrell’s offending using sleekit parly rules - despite MSPs being set to back a probe.

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Anonymous 07/12/26 (Sun) 23:28:04 fe3bae No.24819694

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>>24797546

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-officer-who-raped-two-37377033

Shamed former Police Scotland officer who raped two women and abused a third jailed for 10 years

Cameron Ross raped two women on the Isle of Lewis and subjected a third woman in Inverness to a campaign of domestic abuse

Ruth Suter

02 Jul 2026

A disgraced Police Scotland officer who raped two women and carried out a campaign of domestic abuse against a third has been caged.

Cameron Ross was jailed for ten years at the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday, July 2. He was sentenced after he was found guilty of the horrific crimes following a trial at the same court in May.

His offences included rape, domestic abuse, attempting to pervert the course of justice and threatening or abusive behaviour. The evidence presented by prosecutors showed that the 39-year-old engaged in a pattern of sexual and physical abuse against women.

The offences took place at locations in Inverness and on the Isle of Lewis between 2012 and 2022. Ross, 39, was suspended from Police Scotland in January 2024 after the allegations came to light and resigned last month.

Faye Cook, Procurator Fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, said: "Cameron Ross carried out deliberate and repeated acts of abuse against women over the course of a decade.

"This was sustained offending, which caused significant harm. As a police officer, he was in a position of trust. Instead of upholding the law, he chose to break it in a serious and persistent way."

During the trial, the court heard how Ross raped the first woman after they met at a party on Lewis between August and October 2012. The woman told the court how Ross "pinned her down to a bed" before carrying out the attack.

She said the incident had left her traumatised. A second Lewis woman told the trial Ross had sat on her and restrained her before raping her in June 2014.

He went on to subject a third woman to a course of abusive behaviour between October 2019 and June 2022 in Inverness. The court was told Ross threatened to kill the woman, repeatedly pushed and pulled her, threw her to the ground and brandished a knife at her.

Ross was also convicted of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner at an address in Inverness on June 5, 2022, and later the same day he attempted to pervert the course of justice by trying to speak to a woman who was providing a witness statement to an officer.

'Our thoughts are with the victims'

Judge Alison Stirling told Ross: "The reasons for the sentence include punishment and deterrence. It is also to to show society's concern and disapproval for your offending." Ross was also placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison said: "Our thoughts are with the victims in this case and I hope this conviction provides them with some measure of closure. I commend their strength in reporting these crimes and bringing this individual to justice. We understand how difficult it can be to report these kinds of offences, particularly when the perpetrator is a police officer.

"We want the public to be reassured that all reports are thoroughly investigated, no matter when the offending took place or who is involved. All officers are bound by our Standards of Professional Behaviour, which apply on and off duty.

"Any instance where an officer fails to uphold our standards will be investigated and appropriate action taken."

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Anonymous 07/12/26 (Sun) 23:34:33 fe3bae No.24819719

>>24819694

fuck knows what happened there. Included were links to abuse bun and the "law and disorder" bun. Not entirely sure how they changed to these 2.

>>24797546

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Anonymous 07/13/26 (Mon) 00:42:48 fe3bae No.24820012

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>>24782670

>>24782679 (Roger Livermore, like Ian Clayton @EthicalApproach is calling out the glaringly obvious unconstitutional nature of gov't, police and the clowns in the criminal IN-JUSTICE system. In other words the whole stinking, rotten system.) Seems like it belongs in both buns to me.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-non-functioning-justice-system-37365508

Scotland has a 'non-functioning justice system' due to cops and Crown muddle on prosecutions

Total madness! Campaigner says Police Scotland and the Crown Office have no 'agreement as to who decides when to prosecute and when not to!'

Ben Borland

30 Jun 2026

Scotland's justice system is system has descended into "total madness" and is "clearly non-functioning" in the wake of the Murrell case, according to a former crown prosecutor.

Roger Livermore was speaking out after the extraordinary BBC interview in which Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Houston and Crown Agent John Logue both appeared to blame the other for the decision not to prosecute Nicola Sturgeon.

Mr Livermore, who oversaw multiple major health and safety prosecutions in England, has been campaigning for years for wholesale structural changes to the devolved government in Scotland.

He told the Scottish Daily Express: "We now have on the record that there is no agreement (Lord Advocate/COPFS and Chief Constable/Police Scotland) as to who decides when to prosecute and when not to.

"This is fundamental. Total madness. Clearly a non-functioning justice system. There needs to be a clear answer re Sturgeon, and on the corporate homicide case, and all prosecutions in Scotland."

Mr Livermore is one of the healthcare campaigners who reported the Scottish Government to Police Scotland for corporate homicide due to the litany of errors they say were made during the Covid pandemic.

After several years of detailed investigation, ignored by every other news outlet in Scotland, detectives have now passed a file to the Crown Office to ask for further instruction.

He went on: "David Hamilton, the Scottish Information Commissioner, and former policeman, has apparently been warning about the diseased relationship between the Crown Office and Police Scotland."

On Saturday, Mr Hamilton, a former senior police officer with 26 years experience and former Chair of the Scottish Police Federation, tweeted: "For over 15 yrs I've flagged the risk of the unclear nature of the relationship between @COPFS & @PoliceScotland. Leaders in both orgs claimed to know how it worked- but when they explained it, it was always different! Looks like that's been brought to a spectacular head!"

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Anonymous 07/13/26 (Mon) 00:44:30 fe3bae No.24820018

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>>24820012

………………………………………………………………continued……………………………………………………………….

Mr Livermore – who in addition to his other responsibilities is also a founding member of the Action for a Safe and Accountable People's NHS campaign – has also been campaigning on this for at least 15 years, although his warnings seem to fall on deaf ears at Holyrood and Westminster.

He added: "Anyway there seems no point in me chasing this to get action with everyone on their holidays. None of the other political parties have done anything on this. So I sent it to Reform but heard nothing back."

Operation Branchform was launched in 2021 after complaints that around £670,000 in 'ring-fenced' donations to pay for a second independence campaign had gone missing from the SNP's accounts. Over time, it became clear to detectives that chief executive Peter Murrell had been spending vast sums of the party's money on private purchases.

Peter Murrell's £400k spending spree

Search through over 600 purchases by husband of ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

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2020

Erwin Hymer Centre (Travelworld)

Niesmann and Bischoff Smove 7 4e motorhome

£124,550

2019

Pentland Jaguar Edinburgh

Jaguar I-Pace

£57,500

2016

Western Volkswagen

Volkswagen Golf

£16,489

2019

Apple Retail purchase

£12,042

2017

C W Sellors Jura Luxury Watches

Bremont Watch World Timer Alt1-Wt Black

£4,795

2017

CW Sellors Jura Luxury Watches

Bremont Watch World Timer Alt1-Wt White

£4,555.25

2017

Richemont (UK) Ltd and its subsidiary Montblanc (UK) Ltd

Starwalker World Time Fountain Pen White Gold Au 750 - 18 Karat

£4,225

2019

Text Local purchase

£3,780

2017

Hamilton & Inches

A Hamilton & Inches Hand Chased Wine Coaster in Britannia Silver

£3,500

2016

Arredatutto SRL

Jura GIGA 5 Cromo Coffee Machine

£3,231.90

2021

Frank Smythson Ltd

Vanity Bureau (£995)Tea Set Black (£2,995)

£3,192

/ 57

Source: High Court documents

He was arrested in April 2023, just six weeks after his wife Nicola Sturgeon abruptly stepped down as First Minister and party leader. She too was arrested but eventually a decision was taken not to charge Ms Sturgeon. Murrell – after an incredibly lengthy process, which led to a court hearing just three weeks after the Holyrood election – eventually pleaded guilty to embezzling just over £400k. He has now been jailed for five years and three months.

Speaking to the BBC, ACC Houston said: "We didn't make any recommendations to prosecute or otherwise, our role is to report the circumstances…We then seek advice and guidance what way they think that that should go. It is [the Crown's] decision into the prosecution of cases. Our line was very much 'Here is all the evidence that we have collated as much as we could find'. Our job is not to to have that final decision."

Mr Logue said the prosecution service only decided not to press charges "because the police came to the conclusion that while they had reported Peter Murrell to us for consideration of prosecution, the police came to the conclusion that before they would submit any report, they would check with us as prosecutors, which is a normal thing that happens in any other case, whether they had enough evidence to prosecute.

"And it was clear, I think, to the police that if they had had enough evidence in their eyes to prosecute, then they would have reported Nicola Sturgeon. There would have been no reason not to having reported Peter Murrell. But their investigation in relation to Nicola Sturgeon reached a point where they felt the right thing to do was to check with us as the prosecutors whether there was enough.

"And we looked at it and we agreed with their assessment that there was not enough evidence to report Nicola Sturgeon to us for prosecution. And so that police assessment was entirely correct."

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Anonymous 07/14/26 (Tue) 19:40:08 fe3bae No.24826119

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Nicola Sturgeon in fresh ‘secrecy’ row over Peter Murrell cash probe as major U-turn confirmed

The Scottish Sun

476K subscribers

Jul 14, 2026 #snp #peterMurrell #nicolaSturgeon

NICOLA Sturgeon will NOT publish the statement she handed to cops after ‘no-commenting’ her interview over Peter Murrell’s £400,000 embezzlement from the SNP, her lawyer has said.

The ex-Nats chief has rejected the calls to release the written document she sent to detectives after she “hindered” their probe by refusing to answer any questions after she was arrested.

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Anonymous 07/14/26 (Tue) 21:59:52 fe3bae No.24826655

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Campaingers claim SNP 'Criminal cabal' & believe Murrell had 'close control' of Yes Scotland funds

The Scottish Sun

476K subscribers

Jul 14, 2026 #snp #seanClerkin #peterMurrell

Claims Peter Murrell did not have control of the funds of pro-independence group Yes Scotland have been slammed as “weasel words” by those pushing for a police investigation.

Lawyer Aamer Anwar released a statement on Tuesday on behalf of former Yes Scotland boss Blair Jenkins saying Murrell – who was recently jailed for five years for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP – never had access to the campaign’s funds.

The statement also claimed £1.5 million described by some as “missing” from the campaign’s accounts had been spent on running costs.

Speaking to journalists outside Fettes police station in Edinburgh following a meeting with detectives, campaigners David Henry and Sean Clerkin rejected Mr Anwar’s claims.

“That’s weasel words,” said Mr Henry, a failed SNP candidate who left the party in 2021.

“Access doesn’t mean he wasn’t in control or acting as a shadow director, right?

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Anonymous 07/15/26 (Wed) 20:22:40 fe3bae No.24829654

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>>24826655

https://youtu.be/04Gv7jrYGyQ

SNP Slammed over 'cover-up culture' after the greatest scandal in their history

The Scottish Sun

476K subscribers

Jul 15, 2026 #snp #peterMurrell #johnSwinney

IT has been almost two months since Peter Murrell admitted embezzling more than £400k from the SNP.

And since the bombshell, more and more shocking details have continued to emerge.

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Anonymous 07/15/26 (Wed) 20:25:57 fe3bae No.24829661

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>>24782679

https://youtu.be/7a1Iy1Vf8nU

King Charles Hit With MASSIVE BACKLASH After Latest Islam Revelation!

Point Blank

35.6K subscribers

44,836 views Jul 14, 2026

Like and Subscribe For More!

Dan: @britishstand

Dom's X: https://x.com/PointBlankDom

Dan's X: https://x.com/britishstandd

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Anonymous 07/15/26 (Wed) 20:28:12 fe3bae No.24829668

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>>24782669

https://youtu.be/xmgTwLWxKsY

The families of groomers know

Rotten Politics

87.4K subscribers

61,276 views Jul 14, 2026

This is evidence that not only are the family's complicit

They are also as guilty

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Anonymous 07/16/26 (Thu) 21:26:18 10e793 No.24833578

wooooo! SCotland! Minecraft!

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Anonymous 07/17/26 (Fri) 20:00:20 fe3bae No.24838852

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>>24829654

https://youtu.be/PDYbB4LkjHk

Nicola Sturgeon branded 'liar who tried to put Alex Salmond in jail to hide Peter Murrell's crimes'

The Scottish Sun

476K subscribers

24,455 views Jul 16, 2026 #snp #peterMurrell #nicolaSturgeon

NICOLA Sturgeon is a liar who enabled Peter Murrell’s crimes and tried to put Alex Salmond in jail to keep them hidden, a veteran ally of the former first minister has alleged.

The ex-SNP chief was slammed by former Tory minister David Davis - a long-time friend of Mr Salmond.

Mr Davis claimed Ms Sturgeon used allegations of sexual offences against Mr Salmond to stop him from discovering the crimes committed by her husband.

And he insisted the former first minister knew about them and actively covered them up.

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Anonymous 07/17/26 (Fri) 20:09:54 fe3bae No.24838894

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The Mandelbrot Set | The origin and applications of Fractal Geometry (Full Documentary)

wocomoDOCS

383K subscribers

212,617 views Jun 2, 2026 #fulldocumentaries #stephenhawking #nova

Presented by Arthur C. Clarke and with music by David Gilmour, this documentary will take you

on a trip into the Twilight Zone with the deeply strange Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry.

-–

Chapters

▷ 00:00 - Introduction

▷ 02:13 - The Mandelbrot set, a.k.a. "The Thumbprint of God"

▷ 07:27 - The Equation

▷ 11:45 - The colours and shapes of the Mandelbrot Set

▷ 16:24 - Fractal geometry allows us to describe nature

▷ 24:27 - Applications of fractal geometry

▷ 26:50 - Discussion with Stephen Hawking about the limit of the universe

▷ 31:27 - Applications of fractal geometry

▷ 34:54 - Fractal image compression systems

▷ 41:24 - Application of fractal geometry in medicine and art

▷ 44:43 - The philosophical implications of fractal geometry

▷ 49:10 - Credits

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Anonymous 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:01:42 86e969 No.24839009

>>24838894

Ass er tion

Connect dots, connect fingertips.

Gayband said everybody love each other.

Sea is a body of water.

A body is matter

He is the object of her affection

Objects are matter

Love every object as in I guess Wall-E buzz lightyear or Ted the bear….

So you think that's air u are breathing neo.

No Morpheus I'm breathing electricity.

So that would mean everything is wired the same, hence only one mofking currency

Luvya

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Anonymous 07/17/26 (Fri) 21:03:46 86e969 No.24839013

>>24833578

No one creates a new board.

They just believe they do.

10, 9

10:10

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Anonymous 07/21/26 (Tue) 21:17:31 d8fcfc No.24852951

Remember how all those trees got cut down in Scotland to build an expensive wind farm that is now being paid not to generate power because substations and transmission lines were never built to carry the electricity to where it would be used? Yeah, here we go again

Scotland Gives Go-Ahead for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Bloomberg July 31, 2025

By Eamon Akil Farhat and William Mathis (Bloomberg) — The Scottish government has given SSE Plc consent to build what would be the world’s biggest offshore wind farm.

The Berwick Bank wind farm, located off the eastern coast of Scotland could provide power to 6 million homes. The 4.1 gigawatt project has been in development for about a decade and this was the final major stage before it can start bidding for government subsidies in the next wind auction starting in August.

The project could be crucial to the UK’s ability to meet a goal to almost completely decarbonize the power grid by 2030. But its construction also risks adding further costs to consumer bills, already among the highest in the world, as it would likely exacerbate costly constraints on the nation’s electric grid and drive further investments to alleviate them.

The move comes just after a visit to Scotland by US President Donald Trump who voiced his dislike of wind farms, especially ones off the coast of his golf courses there. While Scotland is pivoting from an oil past to lead the world in wind energy, Trump insisted that Aberdeen was the “oil capital of Europe,” and pushed for more expansion in that sector.

Berwick Bank could bring £8.3 billion of value into the UK economy and create 9,300 jobs, the company said in a statement. Scotland would benefit from 4,650 of these jobs.

UK-based utility SSE said in a statement that it plans to bid into an upcoming government auction to subsidize new renewable energy projects. If it wins at that auction, the project would be able to sell power at fixed prices for a period of 20 years. Any subsidies it receives during that period would be paid by levies on consumers’ bills.

https://gcaptain.com/scotland-gives-go-ahead-for-worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm/

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Anonymous 07/23/26 (Thu) 23:53:18 fe3bae No.24860720

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>>24782679

https://x.com/EthicalApproach/status/2080394280875753590

ETHICAL APPROACH UK

@EthicalApproach

30 June 2022.

A celebration unsurpassed British policing.

Something to be proud of.

From youtube.com

9:47 PM · Jul 23, 2026

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Views

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Anonymous 07/23/26 (Thu) 23:57:38 fe3bae No.24860736

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>>24782679

>>24860720

https://youtu.be/tdsnsssIKx4

The UK Police Operation Talla Awards Ceremony

Ethical Approach UK

787 subscribers

1,193 views Oct 27, 2025

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Anonymous 07/24/26 (Fri) 00:02:12 fe3bae No.24860754

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>>24782670

>>24782667

https://youtu.be/a1rih83I2IE

Disgraced former SNP Boss Peter Murrell's Legal Aid Revealed Despite Massive Embezzlement

The Scottish Sun

477K subscribers

Jul 23, 2026 #PeterMurrell #SNP #SNPScandal

Peter Murrell, 61, is currently serving a five-year prison sentence at HMP Dumfries after pleading guilty to a calculated 12-year campaign of dishonesty.

The disgraced former SNP chief executivel has been handed nearly £5,000 in legal aid following his conviction for embezzling over £400,000 from the party.

Figures from the Scottish Legal Aid Board reveal that £4,831 has been allocated to fund his top defence team, led by John Scullion KC — a figure that could climb further as final claims are processed.

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Anonymous 07/26/26 (Sun) 19:29:34 fe3bae No.24870918

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/23/scottish-police-officer-alan-greer-rapist-over-14-years

Scottish police officer was rapist who attacked women over 14 years

Alan Greer, who killed himself after officers visited his home, could be ‘Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens moment’

Rachel Hall

23 Jul 2026

A police officer who took his own life in May was a rapist who attacked at least nine women over 14 years.

PC Alan Greer’s offending came to light when his first known victim, a woman he raped in her home in Glasgow in 2012 after she had called the police to report being the victim of a crime, reported the attack late last year.

Her disclosure prompted one of Police Scotland’s biggest anti-corruption inquiries, which so far has uncovered a further eight victims, five of whom were sex workers, whom Greer attacked while off duty.

A BBC Disclosure investigation has revealed that Greer used hundreds of sex workers throughout his police career, and it is anticipated more victims of his violence will be identified.

A source close to the investigation told the BBC the case resembled that of a Met Police officer who was jailed for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard in London five years ago, after missed opportunities to catch his offending. They said: “It feels a bit like this could be Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens moment.”

Assistant chief constable Lynn Ratcliff, gold commander for the investigation, confirmed that the inquiry had found “truly shocking” evidence.

She said: “This officer has clearly abused his power and has revisited someone that he’s encountered in the course of his duties. But this victim was brave enough to come and speak to us, and that really was the trigger point for us starting our investigation.”

Greer, who was born in Australia in 1978, joined Strathclyde police in 2009 and had 17 years of apparently unblemished service. When he died in May he was 47, with a wife and child.

Greer’s family and colleagues are understood to have been oblivious to his violent double life. Senior officers insisted there were no opportunities to spot his offending sooner.

After the woman reported the sex attack that happened in 2012, the case was handed to the anti-corruption unit (ACU), which was able to identify the call she’d made in 2012 and the officers who had attended.

They found that, in the weeks after the attack, Greer had repeatedly monitored the woman’s crime file on the police computer for updates.

Anti-corruption detectives obtained his mobile phone number, which was then put through police intelligence databases, revealing a single piece of intelligence dating back to 2018, linked to that number, but with no name attached.

The intelligence was from a Glasgow sex worker and indicated that the owner of that phone number was a customer who had been violent.

This gave detectives grounds to monitor every keystroke that Greer had made on police computers, where they discovered that Greer had been searching the police system for traces of a complaint from a phone number belonging to a Glasgow sex worker.

A sheriff authorised a warrant to search his home and seize his devices, where officers found thousands of graphic videos and images, revealing that Greer had used hundreds of sex workers throughout his police career.

Officers are not yet even halfway through the files, but have already identified five sex workers who were seriously sexually assaulted and two female police officers Greer had taken inappropriate photographs of while they were training.

If Greer were alive, it is understood police would have sought charges of attempted murder in some of the cases due to the level of violence.

As Greer’s serial offending was emerging, social work officers, accompanied by local police, visited his home on 5 May to ensure his family were not in danger. Greer died by suicide the following day.

Ratcliff said that no red flags were missed, but added that Greer would not pass vetting checks today.

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Anonymous 07/26/26 (Sun) 19:52:46 fe3bae No.24871010

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24mpgme1v1o

Burns scholar unmasked as convicted paedophile is jailed for historical abuse

Chris Clements

24 July 2026

A convicted paedophile who changed his name and became president of the Robert Burns World Federation has been jailed for five years after more victims of his historical abuse came forward.

Marc Sherland, now 70, was found guilty in May of indecently assaulting three teenage boys at his Paisley home between 1988 and 1990.

He was originally convicted in 1991 of abusing two boys aged eight and 10 when he worked as a council youth worker in Renfrew.

Following his earlier conviction, he disguised his past as a sex offender by changing his name, before going on to become a cultural ambassador for Burns' poetry and the Scots language.

Sentencing him at Paisley Sheriff Court, Sheriff Gillian Craig said a five-year prison sentence would be followed by three years of supervision after his release.

She also imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which prohibits him from having any contact with children for a period of 20 years.

Sheriff Craig said Sherland had "intentionally" gained employment working with children and that he had groomed them before carrying out his "appalling" offences.

She said Sherland's actions demonstrated his "evil intent" and a "clear pattern of predatory behaviour".

The harm caused to his victims throughout their adult life had been "devastating", the sheriff said.

She said Sherland had reported that he no longer had "deviant sexual interests in male children" but he had provided no evidence of this.

The social work report on him said he showed little to no remorse or insight, the sheriff said.

Peter – not his real name – is one of three men who gave evidence against Sherland in May.

He was 16 when he came into Sherland's orbit through his school and community centre in Renfrewshire.

At the time, Sherland was in his 30s and known as Douglas Stuart Hammond.

He worked as an education community worker for the old Strathclyde Regional Council.

Peter, now 52, told a jury during the trial that he was assaulted when he visited the predator's home in Stock Street, Paisley, in 1990.

He told the BBC that - after 35 years of silence - he reported it to police after discussing the incident with a mental health worker.

"I'll be honest with you, it's really hard to explain for me because I'm really just getting a grip of it myself," he said.

"I had a lot of personal problems, but the counsellor said that maybe [the assault] was at the root of it all.

"She said: 'The fact that you've got all that guilt and all that, I don't know, shame…' And she suggested that I report it. So I did."

Peter said: "I didn't realise at the time that he was still alive. I'll be perfectly honest with you. So it was kind of a shot in the dark I suppose."

He said his reason for speaking out was because he believes other young boys were abused by the man he knew as Hammond. He urged them to come forward.

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"He is a deceitful man," Peter said.

"He used his intelligence to plot a path for himself.

"I feel relieved that I've done it, that I reported it and went through the full process.

"It's caused me grief, but it's also lifted a good bit off my shoulders."

Previous conviction

A year after his assault of Peter, Sherland - then known as Hammond - was convicted of abusing two boys.

His earlier trial heard that as many as 200 children had visited his home.

In the mid-1990s, Hammond changed his name to Marc Sherland.

This change took place before the introduction of the sex offenders register in 1997.

As Sherland, he reinvented himself as a poet and, in 2020, he became president of the Robert Burns World Federation.

The organisation is a literary society that promotes the Bard's work through education and connections between Burns Clubs.

Sherland promoted Burns' work by attending formal events, hosting school poetry competitions and speaking at Holyrood's Cross-Party Group on the Scots Language, external.

In 2014, he also made an appearance on a special edition of BBC's The One Show ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where he read his own poetry live on television in support of the Better Together campaign.

Sherland's past as Hammond was uncovered by the Sunday Mail in 2024, external.

Peter and two other men reported attacks by Sherland in 2024 and 2025.

In May, after a trial at Paisley Sheriff Court, Sherland was convicted of indecently assaulting two boys – aged between 13 and 16 – and another who was over 18.

The court heard he had come across his victims through his work at the former Cherrie Centre, a community complex in Renfrew.

Anne Marie Hicks, procurator fiscal for North Strathclyde, said he "abused his position as a youth worker to sexually abuse vulnerable children".

She said: "This was a sustained pattern of offending against three boys. He exploited the trust placed in him by the victims, using his role and familiarity with them to commit these offences.

"I would like to acknowledge the courage shown by the victims in coming forward and giving evidence.

"Their willingness to speak about what Sherland did to them was instrumental in securing this conviction."

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