The BBC Scotland reporting this morning has:
The mother of Emma Caldwell is to meet the first minister on Tuesday to call for a public inquiry into the investigation of her daughter’s murder.
Margaret Caldwell wants a judge to look into the failings by police in the case.
Iain Packer was jailed for life on 28 February for the murder of Emma as well as 11 rapes and multiple sexual assaults against a total of 22 women.
The Scottish government has said it will consider a public inquiry.
After the verdict, Police Scotland apologised for how the original inquiry was handled and for letting down Emma and other victims.
Ms Caldwell’s family said she had been failed by officers due to a “toxic culture of misogyny and corruption” which left Packer free to rape other women.
There’s not a word about Strathclyde Police, the force operating in those days long before all the forces were merged into one in 2013, against much opposition. There’s not a word about the First Minister at the time, Jack McConnell:
McConnell with Strathclyde Police Superintendent, Campbell Corrigan, in 2006
Did McConnell, or Justice Secretary, Jim Wallace, call for an inquiry into Police Scotland’s treatment of women sex workers and minority groups? I can see none.
There was media attention.
Ten Scottish prostitutes murdered, but only three men are convicted – 14 Dec 2006 — The homicide rate for sex workers in Britain is 12 times higher than for other women; prostitutes constitute the largest single group of unsolved murders.
The Herald, in 2004, had:
Mother bursts into tears as prostitute murder case is found not proven. Police declined to say whether prostitute Jacqui Gallagher’s murder file was now closed after self-confessed sadomasochist George Johnstone was led from the dock.
Was there no action then because the Scottish Labour Party and the Lib Dems were themselves horribly misogynistic and did not care about sex workers’ lives?
Then?
On the 24 February 2024:
Scottish Labour has voted down a motion submitted via its women’s conference which had urged it to “acknowledge the principle of women’s sex-based rights”, despite most Constituency Labour Party delegates and the Scottish Labour women’s conference supporting the motion.
Critics of the motion have hit out at “transphobia” within the party, but supporters said it was “chilling” to see a women’s conference motion voted down.
A card vote was held on the floor of the Scottish Labour party conference in Glasgow over the motion this weekend. LabourList can reveal 69.3% of CLP delegates’ votes were for the motion, but votes are weighted equally between CLP delegates and party affiliates.
The motion fell because 77% of affiliate votes were against it, making it the first and only motion to have been rejected by the conference. The party’s affiliate groups include trade unions, socialist societies and equality groups. Multiple sources told LabourList several trade unions voted against the motion. https://labourlist.org/2024/02/scottish-labour-rejects-womens-conference-and-clp-backed-motion-backing-sex-based-rights/
Try just corruption then? Google says ‘It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search’
McConnell has, in retirement, told the SNP to do something about sectarianism and ferry contracts and Wallace has complained about the Police Scotland chief having too much power.
What happened to the Met investigation into McConnell’s alleged cash-for-honours actions in 2007, only months before the SNP ousted him?
Based on the media coverage, leaders and viewers could well think this buck stops at the door of Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Government, the SNP.
Why are these simple factual details not mentioned?
Talking-up Scotland 
The unionist media work under the assumption that any historic and present failing in Scotland is down to the SNP . It is only a matter of time before they will blame them for all FUTURE failings!
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The SNP are blamed for Scotland getting independence by the new Government in Scotland who being made up of a coalition of so called unionist are still saying we are better together and bemoaning we are not being ruled by Westminster as before even though Scotland are now more prosperous and poor rump England is now classed as a third state country my heart bleeds for them yawn.
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“Based on the media coverage, leaders and viewers could well think this buck stops at the door of Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Government, the SNP”.
…….and that is the objective is it not……we also saw it with the Post office scandal….where the Horizon system was not a system agreed to and then rolled out by the SNP as when that system was first implemented they, the SNP, were not even the Scottish government at the time (but where like everything else instigated by other political parties the SNP ,as Scottish government, gets dragged into yet another mess others have made in the past based on bad decisions)…..like where UK government ministers, like Ed Davey who was the Postal Affairs minister at the time, as part of the Lib Dem/Tory coalition UK government, he took the easy way out when approached to investigate concerns by Sub Postmasters….. he made no real effort or made any decision that would have then seen justice for those Postmasters long before now.…instead he simply (willingly) accepted what the managers (Bosses) said to him was true (so sweep sweep under the carpet it went as a complaint by ‘workers’)……and thus then allowed the injustice and tragic situation to continue…….it was reported that so far….he, Davey, has not apologised for the (lack of) actions he took then….indeed to listen to him now you would think he too was a victim of the Post office’s duplicity….a victim ?…..minus the financial and reputational ruin ……but now his past lack of diligence (laziness and lack of concern for justice) has caught up with him….and I believe one ex Deputy Postmistress is standing against him, Ed Davey, at the next GE….stating he, Davey. “Must be challenged”……
As to Jack McConnell….remember when he was the one who appointed Donald Trump as ‘Ambassador for Scotland’ and was quoted at the time in stating “”This is a good bit of business for all concerned.”……yet years later on an episode of BBC QT Piers Morgan (another clueless one on Scottish politics) attributed that it was Alex Salmond , leader of the SNP and FM at the time, who had done this……..once more another example of the SNP being blamed for decisions made by others (Pro UK political parties)……….
As to the media…..their hope is that “viewers” are clueless as to dates as in who was actually in power at the times of specific tragic incidents or scandals and thus their reporting does much to suggest the culpability and sole responsibility now lies with the SNP as the current Scottish government (for past occurrences prior to their taking office……which basically boils down to them, the media, stating…on a loop…. ‘Why have the SNP, so far, not righted the wrongs done by other political parties’ ) while Pro UK parties in Scotland demand that the SNP, as Scottish government , adopt a ‘Rob Peter to pay Paul’ strategy as part of a mitigation exercise to offset the Tory UK government’s bad practices via cruel and devastating ‘Reserved policies’ and powers that have a hugely detrimental impact upon Scotland..….meanwhile the Tories at HQ are still trying to feast off Corbyn once being leader of the Labour party….but forgetting he was ONLY a leader of the Opposition and not the UK PM while Labour here in Scotland and their HQ accuse the SNP of many SUPPOSED failures while simultanously excusing their colleagues in Wales of ACTUAL worst failures , which they Labour here and at HQ, attribute solely to the UK government……as per part of the ongoing Pro UK stitch up that is infecting both Pro UK politics and media….and where we , in Scotland, are supposed to believe that the SNP, as a government , are somehow the exception to the rule compared to other governments within the UK.…as in the SNP always being to blame and also always being #SNPBAD………….but where excuses made for other political parties as governments within their UK…….
Truth hurts…hence why Pro UK politicians and the media do their utmost to ensure truth never gets out in Scotland….and that is the REAL scandal (ongoing)….hence why many in Scotland seek independence for Scotland…to stop the rot that comes with still being a part of their UK…. VOTE SNP at the next GE and campaign, support and vote for Scottish independence……simples !
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