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A RETIRED police officer says his report into a fire at the home of Willie McRae was ignored by colleagues investigating the death of the independence campaigner. PC John Mooney found the 61-year-old lawyer suffering from smoke inhalation in a top floor flat on the south side of Glasgow. The former deputy leader of the SNP refused medical treatment and later that Easter Friday made the fateful 175-mile journey north to his holiday home in Dornie, near Skye. McRae was found unconscious the following morning at the wheel of his Volvo, at Bunloyne near Glenmoriston, in the Highlands, having suffered a gunshot wound to the back of his head. He died on the Sunday in hospital, after his life support machine was switched off. ....
SHETLAND's new police area commander says it is a "genuine privilege" to serve the community again after starting his role earlier this week. It is chief inspector Paul Daley's third stint in the police force in Shetland. It comes after Lindsay Tulloch was seconded to another. ....
Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A cold case probe into the mystery death of a Wick man is being delayed as investigators require an old-style cassette player to transcribe evidence from a historic fatal accident inquiry. The body of 24-year-old electrician Kevin Mcleod was recovered from Wick harbour after he had been on a night out in February 1997. In 2017 police chiefs finally admitted legacy force Northern Constabulary had not treated the death as murder, despite a specific instruction from prosecutors to do so. Police have since apologised for failures in the handling of the case. ....