Mckie: She Should Not Have Been Charged Fingerprint Expert's Report Finally Released to Holyrood

The Herald › June 22, 2006

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SHIRLEY McKie, the former policewoman wrongly accused of leaving her fingerprint at a murder scene, should never have been prosecuted, according to an expert hired by the executive just before ministers settled the case.

Ms McKie was charged with perjury after she denied being at the home of Kilmarnock murder victim Marion Ross - where a print originally identified as being hers was found. But an executivecommissioned report by fingerprint expert John MacLeod said the print was not hers.

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Mckie: She Should Not Have Been Charged Fingerprint Expert's Report Finally Released to Holyrood

Yesterday critics seized on the release of Mr MacLeod's expert testimony, saying that its conclusions, hidden until now, proved malice on the part of the authori...

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