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    Wings Over Scotland: Locking hands (Craig Murray) 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on August 13, 2021, 10:28 am

    Rev. Stuart Campbell, 12 August 2021

    (quote)
    We had a phonecall this morning from HMP Edinburgh, asking us to briefly relapse
    our retirement again to put out a request on behalf of Prisoner 157095 - better
    known to you and us as our friend Craig Murray, the only person on the planet to
    now or ever have been imprisoned for the undefined and extremely selectively
    prosecuted pseudo-crime of "jigsaw identification".

    Craig is doing okay a week and a half into his eight-month sentence in Saughton
    and is being treated well by both staff and inmates, but was recently informed
    that he is not eligible for early release on an electronic tag (which might have
    seen him out by the end of next month) because he's a civil prisoner rather than
    a criminal one.

    Ironically, if he'd murdered, beaten or raped someone he WOULD have been
    eligible for early liberty under the scheme, but because he's a frail elderly
    man in jail for a non-violent quasi-crime and represents no possible earthly
    menace to anyone, he'll be locked up for months longer.

    What Craig IS finding difficult is being locked up alone in a 12'-by-8' cell for
    22.5 hours a day with very little to do, and he would greatly appreciate if
    people could take a moment or two to write to him. Letters or cards can be sent
    by the traditional paper-and-pen method via this address:
    157095 C Murray
    G3/34 HM Prison Edinburgh
    33 Stenhouse Road
    Edinburgh
    EH11 3LN

    Alternatively you can email him via the officially-sanctioned Email A Prisoner
    service. This costs 40p per message, but Craig can reply and video chats are
    even possible (although sending photo attachments is NOT allowed at HMP
    Edinburgh).

    Please find the time to do this if you can, readers. Don't just think about it,
    actually do it, even if it's just a card. It's only a few minutes out of your
    day, but it would mean a lot to a man for who that time passes much more slowly.
    (/quote)
    -- https://wingsoverscotland.com/locking-hands/

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