A RETIRED police officer says his report into a fire at the home of Willie McRae was ignored by colleagues investigating the death of the independence campaigner. PC John Mooney found the 61-year-old lawyer suffering from smoke inhalation in a top floor flat on the south side of Glasgow. The former deputy leader of the SNP refused medical treatment and later that Easter Friday made the fateful 175-mile journey north to his holiday home in Dornie, near Skye. McRae was found unconscious the following morning at the wheel of his Volvo, at Bunloyne near Glenmoriston, in the Highlands, having suffered a gunshot wound to the back of his head. He died on the Sunday in hospital, after his life support machine was switched off.