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Does anyone know how to get confirmation / denial from the police or prosecutors as a random nobody from another country? We might be getting a update on the Braveheart incident.
Highly sophisticated Twitter anons are now claiming that Fatos Ali Dumana has been charged with assaulting a minor:
Now, this isn't new information per se, as @FistfullOfCrows pointed out "it has been alleged". I can't find the link to where I first saw the allegation, but I've seen it, and remained skeptical thinking "shouldn't there be a medical report"? Lo, and behold, there seems to be one attached to the above tweet.
Ok, it's still trivial to fake something like this, it would be nice to get some sort of confirmation from a disinterested source.... oh, look (Turn off javascript to read. I tried archiving it, but they seem to have countermeasures) a local newspaper is saying that """Two further people""", """a man and a woman""", have been charged as a result of the incident. No names are named (funny how you can dox a little girl, but somehow adults are a step to far), so who knows, maybe it's the girl's parents that are being charged, but with all the other irregularities around the incident, and the newspaper's cageyness around the names of the suspects I wouldn't bet on it.
So... does anyone know how to go about confirming / denying this? @self_made_human, you're in Scotland, would you be willing to make some phone calls?
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Just to point out in the kind of similar Rivera case (3 teen girls kill a Bolivian man in London, also filmed on mobile phone, also on CCTV), the CCTV and video taken by the girls has still not been released (barring a couple of heavily blurred stills) months later even after the trial, nor has the identity of the girls been released. There too the girls claimed the man was harassing them, but witnesses contradicted them and all three pled guilty to manslaughter.
Your chances of getting information from the police on an active investigation as a private citizen are essentially zero. If there is a trial that is the best bet of information being released. Possible CCTV footage might be released here as the clear images of the girls were already released (not by the police), so the cat is out of the bag there. But even so the girls are still being blurred out by the BBC and the like, so even if we get some CCTV stills released they will likely be mostly useless for working out what happened.
Unless it's leaked just be aware even if they have really clear footage it may never be seen publicly no matter which way the situation developed. FOISA requests for anything that may count as evidence in a criminal case are almost always denied. But you could try via
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/new/police_scotland
It does have a note that: Requests to Safety Cameras Scotland should also be made to Police Scotland.
which might be applicable.
You can see requests for information about CCTV have been made previously to Police Scotland (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/communication_between_police_sco_2#incoming-3134038 and https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/information_on_police_scotland_v#incoming-3102254) but often questions are refused to be answered due to the Law Enforcement exemptions.
Also note requests through this site are publicly visible.
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