That the immediate resignation of a very senior police officer's [Deputy Chief Constable Douglas McMurdo] on publication of the Cullen Report raises the question of that officer's Masonic membership.LINK
That such a senior officer of a provincial force would be unlikely not to be a Freemason, that the apparent deletion of all computer reference to Hamilton in the databanks of Central Scotland Police files for the period both before and after the incident demands clear explanation. That police confiscation of the membership records of gun clubs that had disowned Hamilton in dispute of his false claims requires justification.
That their continued retention is both unwarranted and inexcusable.
That in all of the foregoing, the range and character of the relationship between Thomas Hamilton and the police officer concerned would appear potentially suspect.
Consequently requires Her Majesty's Government to institute at the earliest date the most urgent independent and exhaustive inquiry into those matters to ensure the open publication of the fullest report possible.