Monday, June 17, 2019

Enjoying Freedom to the Max, Shamed ex-MP Natalie McGarry enjoys family day out, neighbours say she looks like she hasn’t a care in the world, Lord Turnbull was wrong to let Natalie McGarry out on appeal, and especially when it is not known if there are any grounds for appeal in the first place



















Dear All

The soap opera that is the life of ex SNP MP Natalie McGarry is rapidly becoming the stuff of legend. Initially I thought there was a musical somewhere in it, but I was thinking small, you could make a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy type movie out of this, or if you want to go for the big bucks.

A mission impossible style flick!


Then there are books, and documentaries, maybe even a toy line.

Instead of the good guys winning, we would have to have heartless McGarry taking lots of money from vulnerable people.

And of course, for dramatic licence in any movie, we would have to have a scene where Natalie is being chased in a shopping centre and to keep going, takes a three piece KFC meal off a child.

We have to put that in as a reference to hungry children starving at a foodbank!

Cinematic cuts of the child crying and McGarry munching a piece of fried chicken would be a good contrast, plus the stuffing of handfuls of fries and washing it down with diet pepsi to highlight cruelty and excessive greed. 

Now in the real work we are finding out in the public domain, the back story of convicted fraudster Natalie McGarry’s debt problems which stretched back nearly fifteen years, this would make a great flashback scene for a movie.

Being pursued previously in court in 2004 over a £5,000-plus sum when she lived in Aberdeen would be another great escape scene. A Helicopter on a roof in the Granite City in the rain on a dark night lifting her off to safety is probably a better scene than her jumping a bus or a train.

Maybe Nicola Sturgeon’s helicopter is available?

In 2004, First National Consumer Finance Ltd, a firm providing credit applied for an inhibition against McGarry over a £5,879 debt. In Scots law, an inhibition prevents a debtor from selling or disposing of any assets before the money owed is repaid. A summary of the document stated that McGarry’s whereabouts were “unknown” and the inhibition was discharged in 2006.

At the present moment, Natalie McGarry is freed from prison after only doing five nights, and with her history, the outrage that people feel is genuine. She should be locked up in a prison, not enjoying freedom. It seems that McGarry at present now enjoys family day outs, leaving leafy Clarkston to explore Scotland.

Prior to being released, her lawyer said that the family finances were in perilous state. That being said if you consider that her Cllr husband is supposed to allegedly have two jobs, and she is allegedly on benefits, plus does the kid get child support?

How poor are these people?

To get child support, you can claim if you're 'responsible for the child' which means you'll get £20.70 a week for your first child. It doesn’t matter if you work, or have savings and investments


When I was looking at the piccies of her outside her home as she was snapped on her family day out, I was struck by the badge on what appears to be the family car.

2.0 TDI.

How many people do you know in a financially perilous state live in leafy Clarkston, drive a 2.0 TDI, and allegedly appear to have possibly more than one source of income?

One of her neighbours said:

“It’s horrendous she’s been let out so quickly after stealing so much money.”

“so much money” over such a long time, the test of victimhood which so many people have tried to tag onto McGarry is wrong and disgusting.

Finally, in movies, we all like the happy endings to remind us that in the end, the good guys win but sometimes the bad guys win. Lord Turnbull was wrong to let Natalie McGarry out on appeal, and especially when it is not known if there are any grounds for appeal in the first place. 

There is a need for a change in the law so that if Lawyers say a client’s finances in a perilous state, it has to be verified by the Court.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

2 comments:

Tina Wilson said...

Hear hear.....what is happening to our once fair, just country....I almost despair

Anonymous said...




One Law for the SNP

Another Law for everyone else.