I refer to letters concerning allegations that the Crown Office has failed to disclose information to the defence (May 14 and 15) and a former Lord Advocate returning to become a solicitor (May 16).
We have a Lord Advocate and Crown Office accountable to no-one and prepared to ride roughshod over the rights of the individual. Successive Ministers for Justice have shown time and again an inability to defend the rights of the citizen.
As more and more miscarriages of justice are revealed, the police, with Crown Office support, are shown to be unwilling to re-open investigations.
Those seeking justice are faced with a moribund legal system rooted in the past where inordinate delay and cost are the order of the day and the individual is ground down by a system that appears to operate for the benefit of the legal profession.
While I welcome Alex Salmond's commitment to a judicial inquiry into my daughter's case, can I suggest the remit be widened to provide a total examination of the problems within our justice system as advised by that case, the Lockerbie inquiry and prosecution, and the many other cases where justice is seen to have failed us. Such a decision would provide evidence that we are, indeed, witnessing a revolution in the governance of Scotland.
Iain A J McKie, 27 Donnini Court, South Beach Road, Ayr.
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