{"id":1339,"date":"2015-07-20T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2015-07-20T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:52:54","slug":"mcneilwrites-to-justice-secretary-over-pets-corner-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"McNeil  writes to Justice Secretary over Pet&#8217;s Corner attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Press Release,\u00a019th\u00a0June, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>McNeil \u00a0writes to Justice Secretary over Pet&#8217;s Corner attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has written to \u00a0Justice Secretary Michael\u00a0Matheson,\u00a0requesting a review into\u00a0the law which has prevented the prime suspect for the Pets\u2019 Corner\u00a0attack from being prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The suspect was arrested and charged by Police in April 2013 under Section 19 (1) of the animal legislation. However, a statutory provision of the act is subject to a six month time bar, meaning that criminal proceedings must be raised within six months from the date of the offence. As a\u00a0result, the suspect cannot not be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his letter to the Minister Duncan McNeil <strong>said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Inverclyde community feel extremely let down by a justice system that has not prosecuted the prime suspect for this crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Please could you act to ensure that this anomaly in the law is addressed so that perpetrators who commit similar crimes do not escape justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release,\u00a019th\u00a0June, 2015 McNeil \u00a0writes to Justice Secretary over Pet&#8217;s Corner attack Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has written to \u00a0Justice Secretary Michael\u00a0Matheson,\u00a0requesting a review into\u00a0the law which has prevented the prime suspect for the Pets\u2019 Corner\u00a0attack from being prosecuted. The suspect was arrested and charged by Police in April 2013 under Section 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}