Dear All
Book her Danno!
It took a longtime coming but now is D-Day for
Former SNP MP Natalie McGarry at Glasgow Sheriff Court, 75 years the D-Day
landings occurred in France. How appropriate on that day that Natalie McGarry
has been jailed for 18 months for embezzling money.
Today we celebrate justice in Scotland.
Natalie McGarry is headed for the ‘big
house’, the slammer, the nick, club fed, greybar hotel, the opportunities for a
social life will be severely curtailed and no swimming pool either, no onsite
takeaways, no Chinese, KFC, Donalds, Burger King or even a subway. No opportunity to go to trendy
Southside bars and Cafes.
Having tried to dodge the bullet, the 18
months in prison will give Natalie McGarry the time to reflect not just on her
crimes, but how much of a despicable and horrible person she is which cannot be
explained away by claiming her claims of anxiety and depression. We will never
get the true picture of how much Natalie McGarry stole but the official record
places the amount at £25,600.
Was it worth it?
Is £25.600 worth losing your career, hers
is totally ruined, her reputation is
shot to shit, losing your friends, colleagues, job and also we are told a
miscarriage?
I think she sold out cheap!
Unfortunately for McGarry, she cannot turn
back the clock; she cannot fix the wrongs she had done over the years. After Sheriff
Crozier sentenced her, McGarry was slapped in handcuffs, that moment is the
dawning of a new adventure which will no doubt sink in later this evening in a
prison cell after she is processed.
Passing sentence, Sheriff Crozier told
McGarry that her fraud and deceit had been of the "most serious kind"
given the position of trust she had been in.
He added:
"You have fallen very far short of the
standards the general public should expect from their elected representative. There
is no alternative than a custodial sentence as you have shown no remorse."
The fact she showed no remorse probably
sealed her fate for a trip to prison, but the odds were very high that she
would be banged up. After pleading guilty earlier, her antics of wanting to withdraw
the guilty pleas at a later hearing was refused by Sheriff Paul Crozier,
basically set the Court against her. The Court had given her countless
opportunities but Natalie McGarry didn’t seem to grasp her position and where
she was, and what was about to happen.
She played for time, she attempted to keep
kicking the can down the road by sacking her lawyers, but in the end, her time
was to run out.
Defence lawyer Allan Macleod had earlier
told the court that McGarry continues to insist she was innocent of the
charges. You have to laugh at this part because simply there is a money trail
to follow which all leads back to her and her alone. In mitigation her lawyer
trotted out the classic sob story of ruined career etc, but in this there is a
tragic element. The court was told that she had suffered a miscarriage earlier
this week, while she was six weeks pregnant. You could ask the question with
all of this hanging over her head why she chose to allow herself to get pregnant
in the first place.
Did she want her child to be born behind
bars?
Natalie McGarry was always going to jail.
My interest in this trial was more than
most, I was a victim of Natalie McGarry, during the hate campaign ran against
me by Tommy Ball, McGarry assisted Ball by linking me to the twitter hate
account Ball setup to brand me a paedophile. Tommy Ball was eventually caught
and dealt with but McGarry escaped justice for her part in it.
In my blog post of October 2015, I went
into more detail about what had gone on and listed McGarry’s part.
Today justice has caught up with Natalie
McGarry in full.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
7 comments:
As the saying goes, 'The truth will out' George.
It's good to see justice has been done. It will be interesting to see the reaction of nicola sturgeon when a journalist asks her about the case. Those who hold public office must be above reproach, not stealing from food banks.
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