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