Wings Over Scotland | The Deaf Eyes

This email actually came in a couple of days ago, but we’ve been too dumbstruck to respond to it until now.

Because, like, wow.

Firstly, let’s take a moment to note the weird font change halfway through that central paragraph, as though someone else entirely butted in. And let’s also note that those 93 words took COPFS 27 days to come up with, which makes it all the more shocking that they haven’t even read the question.

The letter we sent them on 3 July couldn’t have been any more explicit: we WEREN’T asking them about fraud. We acknowledged fraud was hard to prove. We said, with the starkest clarity, that the issue was embezzlement.

We’re sure they tried really hard to remember that.

But the eventual response is an insult so crassly contemptuous (and therefore entirely in character for the Crown Office, which is answerable to no-one and can do whatever it likes in Scotland) that it’s hard to know what to do about it. Normally officialdom at least vaguely pretends that it cares about accountability to the people that pay its wages, but to be frank it’d have been less offensively dismissive if COPFS had just sent us a dog turd in a jiffy bag.

We’ll let you know where we go from here when we know ourselves.