BBC Scotland today has:
A police officer who took his own life in May was a violent rapist who carried out a spate of sexual attacks and attempted murders of women over at least 14 years, the BBC can reveal.
PC Alan Greer’s first known victim was a woman he raped in her home in Glasgow in 2012 after she had called the police to report being the victim of a crime.
The woman reported the sex attack by Greer late last year, sparking one of Police Scotland’s biggest ever anti-corruption inquiries.
Note that last bit. Greer had no known previous as they say. Police Scotland had no file on him that would have alerted them to a problem. In sharp contrast, the Met had 10 warnings going back to 2008, on Couzens, and they ignored them all.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68418971
Wayne Couzens, a serving police officer in London, raped and murdered Sara Everard in 2023.
BBC Scotland even state – ‘Greer’s family and colleagues are understood to have been “oblivious” to his violent double life.‘
Yet, today BBC Scotland wonders:
A source close to the investigation told the BBC: “Some of his colleagues thought this was a callous move on behalf of the police, saying he was under criminal investigation when he’d only just died.
“But it’s clear they were all totally in the dark about this guy’s offending.
“Folk will be in a state of shock when they learn the full truth. I don’t think anyone really knows how bad it is yet.
“It feels a bit like this could be Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens moment.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v0rq66q3no
Here’s a better ‘moment’ and it’s for policing under Scottish Labour:
The Emma Caldwell Public Inquiry must ask if the Scottish Labour Government of 20 years ago took its eye of the ball
From Emma Caldwell Public Inquiry begins work, published 8 December 2025:
The independent Public Inquiry into the investigation of Emma Caldwell’s murder in April 2005 has been formally set-up and begins its work today (9 Dec).
Justice Secretary Angela Constance informed Parliament on the formal setting-up date and on the Inquiry’s terms of reference through a Government Initiated Question today.
The statutory inquiry will examine what went wrong in the investigation carried out by Strathclyde Police into the murder of Emma Caldwell, including the direction given by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
It will examine what steps which could reasonably have been taken that might have resulted in Emma’s killer being apprehended and prosecuted at an earlier stage, and any other factors relevant to the circumstances of the investigation and related prosecution. https://www.gov.scot/news/emma-caldwell-public-inquiry-begins-work/
In September 2025, Emma Caldwell’s mother thought the prosecutors hope she dies before the truth of her daughter’s tragic death comes out. I’d say Scottish Labour has more to fear and hopefully this inquiry will properly assess their guilt.
The Daily Record then did not spend any time on the wider picture of misogyny and callous neglect, going back for a century, so deep within Scottish Labour.
Here’s what they won’t tell you, in case it should hurt Anas:
From BBC Scotland, in June 2024:
Nearly 300 rapes and sexual assaults reported by sex workers during the Emma Caldwell murder investigation were not dealt with by police at the time, a senior officer has confirmed.
Police Scotland’s deputy chief constable said an operation had been launched to examine sex offences which were reported around 2005. She said a number of the offences were now being dealt with by the courts. A former detective told the BBC he had received multiple reports of rape when he worked on the murder inquiry. But he said they were “boxed” – marked as irrelevant and not followed up.
The then Strathclyde Police launched one of its most expensive murder investigations after Emma Caldwell’s body was found in remote woodland in South Lanarkshire in 2005.
Imagine, these events took place in 2015 after 8 years of SNP government?
The media would be all over the current SNP First and Justice ministers, asking why they had failed to scrutinise Strathclyde Police? Why had they apparently ignored the reports of massive abuse of sex workers?
Had First Minister Jack McConnell and Justice Secretary Cathy Jamieson taken their eyes off the ball in 2005? Were they too busy campaigning to keep the UK together in the face of surging SNP support? Should heads have rolled?
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But, BBC Scotland and much of the other media want this to be ‘Scotland’s Wayne Couzens’ event.
One of the ‘straw man’ arguments they and the Labour Party have used since before 2014 has been the one about alleged Scottish ‘exceptionalism’ – that is the claim, which I have not heard supporters of independence put forward, that Scots are not like the English in terms of inhumane or criminal acts.
We have our bampots here, as other countries have bampots. The issue is the degree of bampottery, which, as this site has shown is often less than elsewhere in the UK. The site has usually put forward possible reasons for that such as legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament to protect vulnerable people and to reduce poverty. Part of that is the culture of Police Scotland which is different from the Metropolitan Police and some English forces. This is not to claim Police Scotland is perfect, but it has a different ethos, partly, I suggest, because the the number of women in senior positions.
There are also cultural and historic aspects which can be part of the explanation. And, yes, I am aware of Scotland’s history of the slavery trade, burning of witches and tardy decriminalisation of male homosexuality.
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