When Jack McConnell’s constituency treasurer stole £11 000 over 5 years, 22 years ago, she only got a £2 400 fine not the jail because ‘times’ had ‘moved on’

Former Labour First Minister Jack McConnell is everywhere in the MSM calling for ‘both parliaments to probe SNP.‘

From the Telegraph in April 2004, the above, and:

Internal inquiry eh? That’ll be fair eh?

Also:

Did she get the jail?

Ex-Labour party embezzler fined
Labour's Motherwell and Wishaw constituency office
The probe focused on the Motherwell and Wishaw constituencyA former Labour treasurer has been fined £2,400 for embezzling £11,000 from party funds in the constituency of First Minister Jack McConnell.Elizabeth Wilson siphoned the money from the Motherwell and Wishaw branch and from a fund-raising dinner account.The 62-year-old pleaded guilty earlier this month to one charge of embezzlement after 11 charges of forgery and uttering were dropped.A Scottish Labour spokesman said he hoped the matter would now be closed.Sheriff Stewart told Wilson at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Thursday: “In times gone past these offences would automatically have meant jail but times have moved on.

Times have moved on? 24 years later will they be still moved on for Pete?

Sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1458861/McConnell-local-party-treasurer-admits-to-11000-fraud.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3669925.stm

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