Prison security is a big story across UK media this morning, prompted by the above in the Telegraph, this morning. BBC Scotland have nothing on it but do have a piece on the QEUH not being able to report even one positive Ebola case.
In April 2026, BBC Scotland were interested in the same story – prisoners released in error – as the UK media. As always, they failed to spot the main issue:
Shocking incompetence as Lammy oversees the release in error of more than THREE times as many prisoners as Constance in Scotland
Justice Secretaries in April 2026, David Lammy [England & Wales] and Angela Constance [Scotland]
From Sky News 15 April 2026:
179 prisoners freed ‘in error’ in England and Wales in single year – Pressure mounted on Justice Secretary David Lammy last year following a series of high-profile manhunts.
You know where I’m going.
The most recent official parliamentary data (as of 5 December 2025) shows 5 liberations in error in financial year 2025-26 up to that point. This covers roughly the first 8 months of the financial year (April to early December 2025).
No specific updated total for the full period to March 2026 is available in public sources as of April 2026.
https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/questions-and-answers/question?ref=S6W-42371
In an extensive AI search of all MSM operating in Scotland, there were no media reports of any such further cases in Scotland, in the last four months from early December 2025 to end March 2026, so the figure of 5 stands.
England & Wales have 11 times the population of Scotland, so the figure of 55 might have been expect but was in fact 179, more than three times as many.
Back to today, will Lammy sort out prison security issues? Will Reporting Scotland’s James Cook find a teenage drone-pilot who flew his dad’s ibuprofen and codeine into the Bar-L?
‘He needs it fur his neee! He used tae play fur Auchinleck Talbot, ken?’
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All this week, the right wing unionist media have been ‘slamming’ the ‘SNP GOVERNMENT’ as being ‘weak on crime’. Prisoner release – without any data – has been an SNP ‘crime’.
As you point out the BBC Scotland report on the suspected Ebola case at QEUH, shows clear disappointment by the reporters.
Also, Mr Burnham’s speech on devolution has been heavily covered with a unionist slant, that ‘Westminster will devolve things in Scotland wherever the SNP say’. Burnham’s speech referred to Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as Scotland and all three were covered in the same section. When you check the BBC Wales and Ireland sections of the website, there is only minor mention of devolution. Clearly, BBC Scotland is engaging in politics.
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