From MP to HMP; Ex-SNP MP Natalie McGarry sentenced and jailed for 18 months, led to the cells in handcuffs, McGarry showed absolutely no remorse for her crimes; Sheriff Paul Crozier said her fraud and deceit had been of the "most serious kind", it seems the taxpayer is still funding McGarry’s lifestyle, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon endorsed McGarry to be an MP publicly, talk about bad judgment

Dear All

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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.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/cybernat-troll-fined-1500-after-7305775

In my blog post of October 2015, I went into more detail about what had gone on and listed McGarry’s part.

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2015/10/unmasked-nicola-sturgeons-independence.html

Today justice has caught up with Natalie McGarry in full.

Yours sincerely

George Laird

The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University