In the latest series of BBC Scotland’s Highland Cops we hear of a murder in Inverness is murdered by a County Lines gangster from Liverpool who, with a local accomplice stamps to death an Inverness man who is a drug addict and has presumably crossed him in some way. in the broadcast, there are several references to ‘Liverpool’, to ‘County Lines’ and to people ‘coming up here’ to kill.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0033kcn/highland-cops-series-4-1-a-murder-and-a-manhunt-in-inverness

In October 2025, Inverness man Craig Hayden and Leo Heady from Liverpool, plead guilty to murder and are sentenced to 17 years.

On 27 November that same year BBC Scotland covers the story but does not mention ‘Liverpool’, ‘County Lines’ or people ‘coming up here’ to kill. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lrn21el0po

In so doing, they have deliberately concealed that detail from the Police Scotland report in October 2025:

https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2025/october/two-plead-guilty-to-murder-of-ross-macgillivray-in-inverness/

Hooson is also from Liverpool.

You have to ask why were these details redacted? What agenda at BBC Scotland’s HQ in Glasgow does it serve?

The presence of Liverpool-based County lines drug gangs in the Highlands is well-attested, including is this series but, notably, ignored by BBC Reporting Scotland and their website, since 2015. recent examples:

James Cook still still trying to hide UK Police Chiefs’ evidence that Scotland is victim of drug gangs from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool crossing border to keep drug deaths high

For at least 8 years now – English drug gangs bringing misery to Scotland from Liverpool but ignored by the media operating here

Three years after a Liverpool newspaper warned that Liverpool drug gangs are focusing on Scotland and causing high drug deaths, nothing has changed and BBC Scotland still will not inform you of what is happening in your own country