KATHLEEN Nutt reported in Monday’s National on another call, by filmmaker Roderick MacKenzie, for a new inquiry into the shady death of Willie McRae (New call for probe into McRae’s death, January 11). Let’s hope it probes deeper than other failed attempts at an inquiry. The late Dave Leadbetter was at an advanced stage of completing his well-researched book on the subject and has left two boxes of his research with a friend in Edinburgh, in a safe place. Dave was a full-time worker for the (English) Civil Rights Association and was employed by Brent Council to lay constitutions for local authority organisations etc.
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Willie McRae was found critically injured in his crashed car off the remote A87 near Invergarry in the Highlands in April 1985 and died a day later A NEW documentary on the mysterious death of SNP activist and senior lawyer Willie McRae has prompted fresh calls for a public inquiry into the case. The film-maker Roderick Mackenzie hopes to use the 26-minute work as the basis of a three-part mini-series and has backed demands for a further probe into the event. Mackenzie was inspired to embark on the project through his late grandfather Hugh Mackenzie, a Highlands’ doctor and independence supporter who knew McRae.