Who Killed Willie MacRae.
Some maintain he was murdered by the security services over his opposition to plans
to dump nuclear waste in Scotland, while others have said he was silenced by drug smugglers
or he was murdered because he discovered child abuse by cabinet ministers
and other leading members of the establishment on both sides of the Border.
McRae never went public with his allegations as he was found shot dead in his car
off a remote road in Wester Ross on April 6, 1985.
His death also came just months after the late Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens
handed his own infamous paedophile dossier to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan
– only for it to be lost or destroyed by Home Office officials.
Fionna Borders, whose late husband James was a barrister involved in a number
of child abuse cases, said she was convinced that McRae was on the verge of
“shaking the establishment” to the core when he lost his life.
Some years ago before, McRae was linked with another document describing
a network of high-ranking Scottish paedophiles – dubbed The Untouchables
– based on the deathbed confession of child abuser James Gallogley.
But this dossier was dismissed as a hoax.
Before leaving Glasgow for his cottage near Kintail, Wester Ross, the 62-year-old
showed a briefcase of documents to a friend, PC Donald Morrison, and told him:
“I’ve got them this time.”
However, despite phoning ahead to ask for the fire to be lit, he never made it to his destination.
Instead, his body was found the next morning off the A87, with a bullet wound to his head.
A gun was near the car leading to the suicide verdict.
His briefcase or the documents it contained have never been found.
The briefcase has never been found and Mr Morrison said that for many years
he believed the would-be politician had unearthed evidence about illegal nuclear waste at Dounreay.
However, he said he is now adamant the real reason for his death was that he was
planning to expose a child abuse network operating at the highest level.
He said: “At the end of the day he was not done in for trying to stop the dumping of nuclear waste.
“I think he was in possession of secret information about Cyril Smith and others.
“Special Branch had removed information from police files down south to do
with Smith and they just disappeared. There is a similarity here to Willie McRae’s death.
The two people who were following him gave a statement to what was then
the Northern Constabulary and those statements have gone missing too.
It was believed that McRae may have first heard of the ring from his friend Lord Mountbatten,
the Queen’s cousin who was killed by the IRA in 1979, or from somebody linked to him.
McRae had been Lord Mountbatten’s aide-de-camp in India, when he was
a young lieutenant-commander in the Royal Indian Navy.
However he first came upon the information, Mr Morrison said McRae would
have carried out his own detailed investigation before preparing to go public with it.
He added that he learned through colleagues that Strathclyde Police had been
made aware of documents “which could be dangerous to the Government” in McRae’s office.
In light of the recent exposes about MPs and other high profile individuals,
Mr Morrison sensed the information must have concerned child sexual abuse.
It will be 38 years since Willie McRae’s death in April and there has never been an inquiry into his death.
“Willie’s brother, who was a doctor in Edinburgh, did not wish to have an inquiry
at the time because their mother was still alive and they did not want the fact
that Willie was gay to come out.
“I now strongly believe he had in his possession a list of names that he could
have brought down individuals if not establishments”
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Grousebeater made a cracking entry in his blog about the death of Willie MacRea -
https://grousebeater.wordpress.com/2022/07...