sheridan tapes leaked; it wisnae us say police and fiscals

TFO note that neither The Crown Office or Lothian and Borders Police are admitting to any wrongdoing over the 'leak' of police interview tapes to the BBC. In fact after both organisations carried out separate internal investigations they announced their satisfaction that the tapes were not leaked and both declare their innocence in this matter. Well, that will be fine then.

So lets look at what we know, or we think we know. I am beginning to sound like Donald bloody Rumsfleld, "There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist."

So how did the BBC get hold of copies? Maybe there was no leak, perhaps the police or the Crown Office, simply gave the BBC said copies. Am I being pedantic, but did the correct question get asked; Who leaked them?

Undaunted however TFO managed to get through to a mole within the police service and was met with this rejoinder;

' Maybe they wurnie the same tapes. Think aboot it, tapes are easy made up. Ah mean, you didnae see the faces o' the polis, did ye? Ur you getting ma drift. Its no hard tae set up the scene than add the fake voices, a mean, its no the furst time we've done it. A didnae mean the last bit, wull ye take that bit oot. Whit a meant tae say wis, its no the furst time somebody else his dun it. Ken whit a mean like, ya hoor ye.'

The other obvious answer is fairies. Is it?

I am sounding like Donald Rumsfeld again.