'Will you open fire on UK citizens' Army personnel being asked

[Magda Hassan]

There have also been mutterings about Masonic/police favours, Hamilton having been a Lodge member.

This I had no idea of. Did this come up in the inquiry?

Also, he was involved in numerous paedophile related complaints regarding his boys club activities - one of them from George Robertson who lived in Dunblane concerning his son. The same George Robertson who later became UK Defence Secretary and then Secretary General of NATO. It's also disturbing to note that parts of the official 'Cullen Inquiry' into the tragedy have a 100 year publication embargo on them.

This too I had no idea about. It is extraordinary that there is any secrecy involved at all for some local looney who flipped out. I don't think the Philby and MacLean documents or the Princess Margaret photos are hidden for that long. What is up here?

I agree your characterisation of police use and handling of guns too. A cursory look at the cold-blooded public execution of Jean Charles de Menezes confirms their incompetence - or rather their knowledge that, because they will always be given the benefit of any doubt, they can afford to behave like their Chicago-style gung-ho cop heroes - which is exactly what they do when they have been sufficiently pumped up by their terrorist-fearing controllers.

Didn't the police threaten to never do any armed work again if they were not absolved of this crime regardless of the findings? Might have been a good thing if some one called their bluff actually. More than the benefit of the doubt. They are holding us all hostage.