Outlander has returned to our screens for the highly anticipated season seven, and best-selling author for first bringing the franchise to life, Diana Gabaldon, has opened up on her love for Scotland where the show is based in a new interview.
06.06.2023 - 15:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The mum of a young woman who died in custody has launched a blistering attack on prosecutors and prison officials for “lies, insults and disdain” spanning five years.
A joint fatal accident inquiry was announced last week into the deaths of Katie Allan and teenager William Lindsay, who both took their lives at Polmont Young Offenders Institution. Katie, who was 21, and William, 16, died in separate incidents within months of each other in 2018.
But Katie’s mum, Linda, has questioned why there have been no criminal prosecutions despite evidence of shocking neglect and care failures. She told the Sunday Mail: “In a strange way I am grateful to the Crown Office for the five years we have had to research and to understand what happened to Katie.
“What is so difficult to accept is the knowledge that one day we will have to relive the horror of Katie’s last weeks, in a court, and to accept the amount of additional trauma that has been piled on us for so long.”
Last year the Crown Office said there was enough evidence to prosecute Polmont over the death but the SPS is immune from prosecution. Linda went on: “From the day of Katie’s death, when we were left with no support, to last year, being told that the Crown Office could not prosecute the Scottish Prison Service because of Crown immunity, the trauma has been relentless.”
She added: “The insensitivity of the Crown Office has left me breathless, every single time. At our first meeting when we were told there was no evidence for a criminal prosecution, no one listened to all we had discovered.
“Then last year we were told there was evidence for a criminal prosecution but due to crown immunity no prosecution would take place, that the Scottish Prison Service materially
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