Talk:Shirley McKie

message: OK, so as a North American I know nothing about this case aside from the links I've followed from this article. I agree that the implications for Lockerbie needs to be expanded upon. But what about the original murder victim, was her case ever solved? She almost deserves to have her own article. Why did an errant fingerprint blow up to be a big deal? Did they think Shirley killed the woman?--Hooperbloob 00:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right Hooperbloob the murder victim, Marion Ross, seems to have been overlooked. But the Shirley McKie case is only a big story in Scotland (see for example): elsewhere, it hardly gets a mention in the media. This could all change, of course, with expected developments in the Pan Am Flight 103 case.Phase4 10:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I concur.  The background is quite unclear to one not already familiar with the case - why was a fingerprint so important?  Who was the victim?  I hope someone can help out here! 68.2.244.69 (talk) 10:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Several paragrapsh have been added recently by an unregistered user (nothing wrong with that, of course), regarding 1.) SCRO officers maintaining their innocence, 2.) not being permitted to comment because of the terms of their employment, 3.) evidence to the Justice Committee of a "vindictive" campaign and 4.) also noting other expert's opinions concurring with the assessment made by the SCRO. I imagine (1) is correct as I have heard it been said by their MSPs, (2) I would not be suprised if it were true, (3) I don't know about and (4) is supported by the statement made to Parliament made by the Lord Advocate. In any event all these points would benefit from citation of evidence particularly as they are likely to be contentious.
--Lucifer(sc) 13:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You took the words right out of my mouth, Lucifer! I've changed your "citation needed" tags to "fact" tags, which boils down to the same thing.Phase4 13:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: SCRO officer's view

message: Please see:
*"A fingerprint expert who lost her job in 2007 over the Shirley McKie affair has won her case for unfair dismissal"
--Mais oui! (talk) 13:46, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: McKie print expert wins tribunal

message: Whilst I can understand the mention of a folk song in the article I don't think that given the quality of the lyrics justifies a quotation or two from the song and the song having it's own section in an otherwise excellent article. Does anyone else have any comment about this? Trevor Marron (talk) 22:16, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Folk Song

message: I think the article seems to utterly miss the point that the SCRO's official position was unsupported by the evidence and that five other SCRO officers were prepared to dispute the finding that the Doorframe Print was that of Detective-Constable McKie. It was agreed in later testimony that although the prints did have several points of similarity it was clear that each print contained sufficient dissimilar points that no person with any training or experience in the identification of fingerprints should have formed an opinion that the Doorframe Print and the Constables Print were made by the same finger. Over a hundred USA and European fingerprint experts have acknowledged that the two prints were clearly not made by the same finger.
It is likely that the article should contain some statement relating to the SCRO Doorframe Print having later appeared in a misleadingly cropped and poorly focused format.
I think the article's use of "whispering campaign" is a fairly mild description of a capaign of outright harassment.
TinkersDam (talk) 22:40, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basis of determination 

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