Wings Over Scotland | Do You Believe In The Westwood?

As all alert readers will know, this site likes to keep a watchful eye on the shady and disturbing activities of paedophilia-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland. So were were naturally intrigued to hear that they’d hired a new convenor last month.

And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Blimey, AI Christopher Walken looks very very ill”, well, stay tuned, because this story gets more and more interesting.

The image above comes from a story published on charities website Third Force News three weeks ago, but which had vanished when we tried to click on it this morning.

And the reason may be that there’s remarkably little verifiable evidence anywhere that Mr Westwood actually exists.

Wings has been unable to verify any of the claims made on LGBT Youth Scotland’s bio page for Westwood.

If you Google his name in connection with the British Red Cross, for example, the only results returned are the LGBTYS bio page.

The same thing happens with Amnesty International.

His supposed work with Citizens Advice draws an even bigger blank.

As does Pride In London.

The only way to get more results is to use “Tim” instead of “Timothy”, but then they’re all about (what we assume and hope is) a different person.

To be honest, readers, if we were taking up a senior position at an organisation with a horrific record of links to child rape, the very least we’d do would be supply them with a photo so that people would definitely know we weren’t THAT Tim Westwood.

(Charles Rennie, incidentally, was freed a few months ago.)

At a minimum, Mr Westwood’s ostensibly distinguished career seems to have made so little detectable impact anywhere that one wonders why he was headhunted for his new role in the troubled organisation which could probably do with some time away from media scrutiny and controversy for a change, but which the Scottish Government nevertheless continues to throw public money at with, er, gay abandon.

The SNP simply adores LGBTYS, which was once headed by former SNP MP Alyn “Daddy Bear” Smith, who is likely to be elected as an MSP at next month’s election. But even so, you might like to imagine they’d want a little more, er, transparency than this for their money.

We wait agog for Mr Westwood’s first public appearance, if indeed he is a real human. There are an awful lot of questions to be cleared up about his CV. But then in Scotland, questions about anything, and questions about LGBT Youth Scotland in particular, are rarely answered.