Bifurcated Whorls - McKie revisited

Deputy Chief Constable James McKay's report and precognition statement have been leaked and are now freely available for reading on BBC Scotland's website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4967160.stm I think it was obvious that that was going to happen. Expect the remaining documentation (McLeod's report) to be similarly leaked shortly. I have the feeling that we may now be entering an end-stage in this sorry saga. McKay's report certainly makes very unsettling reading, outlining as it does, an allegation of outrageous criminality perpetrated by persons who were supposed to be on the side of law and order. A lot of McKay's report concerns itself with the 'culture' of both the police and the SCRO. One aspect of police culture not considered in the report is the well-known view that only guilty people exercise their right under caution to remain silent. In that context what do you make of this interesting snippet from the report- "The efforts of this Enquiry team to establish the detailed processes and individual actions of those directly involved in the misidentifications has been hampered due to them exercising their right, as suspects of a criminal allegation, to remain silent". I interpret that as meaning that the 4 signatories of the two 'erroneous' forensic science reports did not co-operate with McKay's enquiries. Most strange, given that they apparently continue to maintain that their identifications were correct. However, as always, I express no personal view about the rights and wrongs of the identifications. McKay's report is, however, entirely inconsistent with Jack McConnel's 'honest mistake', and of course 'honest mistake' is entirely inconsistent with a £750,000 pay-out. This scandal has rolled on and continues to roll on because politicians cannot bring themselves to utter the awful truth about what happened. I am now going to remain quiet about this matter until I see how the Parliament progresses it.