The father of former policewoman Shirley McKie admitted yesterday that she wanted nothing to do with the latest inquiry into her case.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced his choice to chair the public judicial inquiry, senior Northern Ireland judge Lord Justice Campbell.
Iain McKie, 68, also a former police officer, said his daughter had been traumatised over the past 11 years since she was accused of perjury at a murder trial, and wanted to get on with her life.
However, she would give evidence to the inquiry and tell the truth "as she had always done".
Miss McKie, 45, had denied allegations, based on a disputed fingerprint, that while working as a detective constable she paid an unauthorised visit to a crime scene - the house in Kilmarnock where 51-year-old Marion Ross had been found stabbed to death in 1997.
Acquitted of perjury, she has fought to clear her name completely and received an apology from the Scottish Parliament and £750,000 in compensation.
Mr MacAskill said Lord Justice Campbell would investigate steps taken to identify the disputed fingerprint evidence and make recommendations as to what further measures might now be introduced to ensure shortcomings are avoided in the future.
Miss McKie did not join her father and Alex Neil, one of the MSPs who has championed her case, at a press conference in Glasgow to welcome the announcement.
"She has had enough of it," said Mr McKie. "She has appeared in court twice, she has appeared at a parliamentary inquiry, and she had tried to get on with her life.
"Every time it's mentioned, the trauma comes back again. A lot of very nasty lies have been spread about my daughter over the years."
He admitted the two had sometimes fallen out over his persistent pursuit of the case in the wider interests of justice. "She has complained that she wants a father, and what she has is a spokesman," he said.
"I have had to take her to places where she did not want to be but I think it has drawn the family closer together."
Mr MacAskill said the inquiry would have full powers relating to access to documents and witnesses, and the Scottish Government would volunteer any useful material that it held.
He said: "The Lord Advocate will make available any material the Crown Office holds and which might be useful to the inquiry, and ministers and officials from the Scottish Government and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service will, if asked, appear in person to provide an account of their knowledge of events. Nothing will be hidden from the inquiry."
Lord Justice Campbell led the 2000 inquiry into the handling of the Surjit Singh Chhokar murder case, and said he would begin preparatory work, with the inquiry starting in September.
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