A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a truck in the Scottish Borders. Emergency services raced to the A7 southbound, near Stow, at around 7.55pm on Friday, August 19.
02.08.2022 - 07:09 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The family of murdered T2 Trainspotting star Bradley Welsh are demanding a criminal probe after Police Scotland admitted gross failures over his killing.
Bradley was shot dead outside his Edinburgh home in a £10,000 contract hit after bungling officers failed to warn him he was being targeted. It emerged during the trial of gunman Sean Orman that a witness told police three times about a gangland plot to murder the ex-boxing champ.
His brother Sean Welsh demanded answers over why officers sat on the information instead of issuing a Threat to Life warning. Now the force has upheld Sean’s complaint following an inquiry by its Professional Standards unit and offered “sincerest apologies”.
They admitted several unnamed high-ranking officers were aware of the threat but it was deemed “not real or credible”.
The Welsh family are pushing for the Crown Office to bring criminal charges against Police Scotland and the officers involved following the damning verdict.
And they plan to mount a civil legal action to help expose the full facts of the shocking case. Sean, 55, told the Record: “I said before the police had blood on their hands.
“We now have black and white proof that it’s true. The bad apples need to be rooted out.”
Bradley was blasted at a close range with a shotgun outside his New Town flat on April 17, 2019. He was 49.
Orman’s trial heard how witness Dean White twice called police on March 18, 2019, to tell them about an underworld scheme to kill Bradley. White was in a flat in Duddingston, Edinburgh, when Orman, 31, boasted of having a contract to execute the former Hibs casual and showed him the gun.
Quizzed by officers two days later, White repeated the details, naming the gangster who put out the contract and armed
A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a truck in the Scottish Borders. Emergency services raced to the A7 southbound, near Stow, at around 7.55pm on Friday, August 19.
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