Posting on behalf of Kate

[Kaz]

Kate asked me to post this on her behalf as the link would not work for her

2014
Many people throughout the country already know the story of Hollie Greig
Hollie is a very bright lady with Downs Syndrome who grew up in Aberdeen Scotland. She claims to have been abused throughout her childhood by her father Denis Mackie, her older brother Greg and other family members who were part of a circle which met regularly and included locally prominent peo-ple. Hollie knows what was done to her as a child was wrong and she wants to get justice.
Hollie first reported the abuse in May 2000 at age 20, having previ-ously been terrorised by Mackie into silence. Initially she named only her father and brother to the police. The police medical forensics specialist confirmed she’d been abused but no further forensics were carried out and Mackie was not charged. A few months later Hollie and her mum Anne Greig went back to the police and Hollie named others whom she claimed had abused her as well as other victims of the ring. Still the police did nothing. Instead, there was an attempt to discredit and intimidate Anne by having her forci-bly sectioned to Cornhill Mental Hos-pital. The Scottish Mental Welfare Authority investigated and found there was no warrant authorising the sectioning.
Thanks to Anne’s persistence in trying to get justice for her daughter, Hollie was eventually awarded a total of £13,500 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, although there had been no investi-gation and no crime had ever been been recorded.
Grampian police also never investi-gated the death in suspicious cir-cumstances of Anne’s brother Robert ‘Roy’ Greig. On the evening of 17 November 1997 Roy was found dying in a burning car in a lay-by off the A90 north of Aberdeen with multiple injuries to his skull and torso. The verdict was ‘suicide’ but the autopsy report was withheld from Anne, Roy’s next-of-kin and she was not allowed to see her brother’s body. Later, Hollie told her mum that
shortly before his death Roy had found her father abusing her and Mackie had threatened to kill him.
Anne and Hollie moved to Shrop-shire England to escape harass-ment. They felt safe until in 2010 their home in a peaceful village outside Shrewsbury was raided and trashed by Council officers and police. The Council also started court proceedings to remove Hollie from Anne into care, however this finally did not happen – the public had been alerted to Shropshire’s apparent involvement in helping cover up for a Scottish paedophile ring.
In 2009 Cheshire-based Robert Green began campaigning for jus-tice for Hollie. He got the police to re-interview Hollie but still there was no action. In 2010 therefore he enrolled as an electoral candi-date in Aberdeen and began expos-ing those on Hollie’s list of alleged abusers with the result that he was arrested and put on bail. After 18 interim ‘diets’, in January 2012 the case finally came to court at Stone-haven near Aberdeen. Robert was sentenced to a year’s imprison-ment for Breach of the Peace of which he served 3 months till pub-lic campaigning secured his re-lease. Since then he has been con-tinuing to write about paedophile cover-up & collusion in high places in Scotland on his widely-read blog. In January 2014 he mentioned the quasi-paedophile ‘Violate Club’ centred on Edinburgh, Glasgow & Aberdeen which appears to have prompted his re-arrest by Scottish police, since when he is being held on remand pending trial in Perth Prison. Also in February 2014 an-other English blogger, satirist Tim ‘Rusty’ Rustige was tried at Aber-deen Sheriff Court on charges of ‘harassment & [cyber] stalking’ of the previous Lord Advocate who was Procurator Fiscal for Aberdeen at the time Hollie first reported her sexual abuse and is believed to have blocked the investigation. Rusty is now in Grampian’s new facility in Peterhead serving a 9-month sentence.

[Workingman]

This is one of those cases, which sadly will have no end.

I followed it in the beginning to the point where any facts became blurred in the claims and counter-claims, and changed stories, from both sides.

On the one hand there is a loving mother trying to do the best for her Downs' syndrome daughter and being baulked at every turn by the authorities who appear to be united behind many veils against her. Not only did they not listen, they took steps, bordering on the illegal, to silence her.

On the other there are the claims of former friends and neighbours of a woman in an unhappy marriage who had a nervous breakdown after the deaths of her mother and brother and whose inheritance was not what she thought it should be. She, therefore, set out for revenge and is using her daughter as a tool, a weapon.

Unfortunately, and I say this with great sadness, Hollie's story is not being heard. She is not being heard because in some quarters she will never, ever, because she is Downs, be regarded as a reliable witness.

[Kaz]

This is a shocking case

Sadly Frank I think you are right...................

[molly]

This is a shocking case

I have found this in the Herald which is a well respected Glasgow broadsheet.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... ng-fantasy

The story may not be all it seems.

[Kaz]

Oh I see! Well that certainly presents an alternative view!

[Workingman]

The article is from June 2012, some time after I became disillusioned because of the conspiracy theories from both sides. The case has fallen into the same category as "Did we land on the Moon?" and "Did the US carry out 9/11?".

The Truth? We will probably never know.

[KateLMead]

Somehow I am unable to get the. Article up on my IPad. I know that the article on Salmon was quite revealing.

[molly]

Kate, if you just google Hollie Greig, it comes up as the fourth item down………at least it does on mine.

[KateLMead]

Thanks Mollie. Terrible case and seemingly it will never get sorted.