Shirley McKie ...slight return

From today's Scotsman: MSPs told of claim officer let McKie into crime scene A FORMER colleague of Shirley McKie, the ex-policewoman accused of leaving a fingerprint at a murder scene, said he allowed her into the home of the victim "because he fancied her", it was claimed yesterday....................... eek!!! - where does this startling information come from - read on...... Alistair Watson, a former detective with Strathclyde Police, who recently made a complaint to police about John Prescott's affair with his secretary, claimed to have heard about this some years ago, while he was working as a taxi driver. It came from an unnamed passenger, who formerly worked with Strathclyde Police. Mr Watson said: "He explained that a young cop who had been guarding the Ross house had admitted letting Ms McKie in before a forensic and fingerprint examination of the scene. "He told me the plan by senior officers was to reveal the existence of this cop at any case for compensation brought against the police by the McKie family." Right, let's see if we've got this right - a former cop (and obvious nut-job) was told this by a taxi passenger who heard it from somebody else. This puts it on roughly the same level of reliability as the fact that my next door neighbour once met a person who knew somebody whose uncle had been abducted by aliens. Right, I'm away to the torture of cardiac rehab therapy - there'll be no more posts till about midnight.