Get Richard Bridge to tell what is meant by "Hearsay evidence".

Fits in with:

"You know what I heard from a friend of mine who heard it from a friend of his down the pub last night? Well .............. (Now then Jim add in what ever sort of horror story you want to dream up in order to push the right buttons)"

It would be just as believable.

Close friends you say?? What did you do when the child went missing?? Who made the missing persons report to the police?? Who organised the local search??

So the police lifted this fourteen year old and questioned him about a robbery in Glasgow. Where did they question him?? Where is the record of him being brought in?? Records must exist. They put him in a car and took him up to Glasgow you said - now there has to be records of that. For a child of that age there would have to be three officers not to mention the requisition for the car, the fuel, the over-night accommodation and per diem allowances, or expense claims for the officers involved. Everything would have to signed for, cross-checked and accounted for.

So they arrive up in Glasgow and just dump him you say - now can you imagine anybody doing that - what you are describing is an abduction at best kidnapping at worst - and you claim that serving police officers did this because they were trying to extort money from a traveller? What they could get from this close friend of yours was worth more than their careers, salaries and pensions? Come on get real, and they leave behind a trail of evidence a mile wide plus the victim who can identify them - highly bloody unlikely.

Its damn funny the things that you seem to question and the things that you accept as being the gospel truth and take at face value. And I most certainly do not believe that I am the person needing a reality check here.