A Scottish police officer has been accused of revealing confidential details about paedophile, Albert Hay, to a resident of the town where the man was living.
Gerard McCartney, 41, of Grampian Police, denied a charge brought under the Data Protection Act at Elgin Sheriff Court earlier this week.
Last July more than 200 people in Keith signed a petition urging Moray Council to remove Hay, 68, from a flat in the town’s Mar Court.
Britain and the EU have a different view of the relationship between government and citizens than America does. Through most of history Europe has been ruled by royalty. The royal subjects were taught to trust the benevolence of the monarch in a paternalistic system somewhat similar to that of a parent and child. The monarchies are gone, but the paternalism persists.
Some question if you can trust a government that secretly places a convicted pedophile in an apartment near children.
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