Son of top Scottish judge made rape threats on twitter. CALLS for an investigation into why Scotland’s Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland has refused to prosecute the son of a top Scottish judge who made threats of rape on twitter to a woman have today been made by legal insiders vexed at claims of underhanded tactics by Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) to subdue reporting on the story.
It has previously been reported by the Scottish media that the son of a high ranking Court of Session judge told a football player’s girlfriend she was going to “enjoy getting raped and stabbed in Glasgow”.
However, the Crown Office have angrily set upon journalists who recently made further enquiries of the story and so far no action has been taken, despite action taken by Police & the Crown Prosecution Service in England & Wales in cases where female campaigners and even a female Member of Parliament have recently been threatened in a similar manner.
Reporting of the threats has been published earlier, here :
Son of High Court judge tells David Templeton's girlfriend: Enjoy getting raped in Glasgow
ROBYN WALKER was the target of a series of lurid and threatening messages sent when her boyfriend decided to move from Hearts to Rangers.
A HIGH Court judge’s son told Rangers star David Templeton’s girlfriend she was going to be raped after he signed for the Glasgow club.
The message sent to Robyn Walker from the Twitter account of the privately educated
teenager said: “Enjoy getting raped and stabbed in Glasgow you wench.”
The 16-year-old’s father promised to “deal with it” when the message was brought to his attention by the Sunday Mail.
Police said they would investigate if any complaint was received.
Lawyers say the tweet could be an offence under telecom legislation.
Robyn was the target of a series of lurid and threatening messages sent when her boyfriend decided to move from Hearts to Rangers.
She said: “I was shocked when I got this tweet saying he wanted me raped and stabbed.
“It wasn’t nice but I have not complained to police.
“My friends said I should but I have decided not to take it any further.”
Templeton, 23, responded to the message and other threats on his Twitter page.
The Rangers star posted: “People slaughtering my gf! It’s embarrassing! She has nothing to do with what’s happened!”
The judge told us: “Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I will go and deal with it now.”
Both Lothian and Borders and Strathclyde Police said they can only investigate abusive comments made on social networking sites like Twitter if the targets complain to them. A spokeswoman for the Strathclyde force added: “Our football co-ordination unit will view the tweet to see if any criminality occurred.”
Leading criminal lawyer Matthew Berlow said: “Anyone who leaves an offensive message on a social networking site such as Twitter could be breaching the Telecommunications Act.”
Templeton signed for Hearts in 2007 before joining Rangers on August 31.
His move attracted heavy criticism from Hearts fans.
The sinister tweets can be revealed just months after we told how another internet troll threatened to sexually attack an alleged rape victim on a football fans’s message board.
He posted anonymously that he would “violently rape” the mum as MPs voiced escalating concern at the threatening and women-hating content of many messages left on social network sites and message boards.
His post was just one of scores of bile-filled messages directed at the woman after she accused Blackburn Rovers footballer David Goodwillie of rape.
Charges were brought against the player but later dropped.
Last month a 37-year-old man was was charged with breach of the peace over the posts and is due to appear in court.
9 comments:
They will be using the lack of charges to get good guilty verdicts out of daddy
In England they are hounding these twitter twits down but in Scotland we send out the message that threatening women with rape is a good thing.......or is it that if you are related to a Scottish judge you are above the law?
Pay yer money and takes your picks?
No wonder the woman did not want to make a complaint just look at what she is up against; a serf serving cabal of backslapping vested interests involving the CPS, the judiciary and the police - all part and parcel of the failed and discredited orthodoxy known as the Scottish Justice System.
Corruption or bigotry? Looks like a certain group in Scotland can say and sing whatever they want without fear of prosecution. Jobs for the Bhoys if you will.
This young lady victim clearly did not report this to the authorities because of their terrible history of falling to prosecute these deviants properly and that she would have known that as a relative of a Scottish Judge he would get away with any crime because they are all like Scottish Judges, above the law?
Another victim of the crooked Scottish Prosecutorial System which is happy to humiliate the victim and let the fiends off Scot-Free as if to pour scorn on the public they are supposed to be defending?
Where is the Press outrage over this corrupt decision?
Cowering under a 'D' Notice as usual I suspect?
The Lord Advocate should be sacked for bringing Scotland into disrepute?
This protected YOBO should be forced to write a letter of apology to this young lady and he should be assessed by a psychiatrist to get to the root of his mysogeny?
Heaven knows what his father must think of his son?
Unless of course this way of thinking has been passed down from father to son, after all, they say that ones behaviour is said to be from 50% genes and 50% environment?
Maybe time for the father to undergo psychometric evaluation to make sure he is fit to carry out his job?
Maybe this is the real reason this case was sweeped under-the-carpet?
How can The Lord Advocate stay in his job when such a travesty of justice is so blatantly committed?
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