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Frontline Scotland, Secrets or Lies, BBC Scotland, 1 April 2003 A Preconceived & Predetermined Agenda, In A Campaign To Discredit Victims Of Abuse. Secrets or Lies is available to view online. Click on this link and scroll down the page. Letter from Helen Porteous to Irene Whelan, 15/09/02 Email from Sam Poling Reporter, Frontline Scotland to James O'Neill, Communications Manager, Scottish Prison Service, 12/02/03 Email from James O'Neill Communications Manager, Scottish Prison Service, to Tom Fox and Ian Gunn, SPS, 12/02/03 Letter from Helen Porteous to Irene Whelan, 13/02/03 Email from Sam Poling Reporter, Frontline Scotland to Tom Fox, Scottish Prison Service, 21/02/03 Registered letter from David Whelan to Sonya Rothwell, 19/03/03 Samples of what David Whelan informed Sonya Rothwell, BBC Frontline producer on the 19/03/03 Fax from Sonya Rothwell to David Whelan's solicitor, 19/03/03 Letter from Sonya Rothwell Producer, Secrets or Lies, to Complainant, 14/04/03 Fax from Complainant One to the BBC and the Scottish Prison Service, 02/05/03 Abuse victim: why I had to go public Sunday Herald, 04/05/03 First letter from Irene Whelan to David Whelan, Summer 2003 Second letter from Irene Whelan to David Whelan, 10/09/03 My words were twisted to defend paedophile who abused my brother by Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald 14/09/2003 Letter from Complainant Two to the BBC, September 2003 Reply from Dorothy Parker Editor, Frontline Scotland, to Complainant Two, 16/09/03 BBC refutes claims against its Quarriers inquiry by Dorothy Parker, Producer, Secrets or Lies, Sunday Herald 05/10/03 Letter from Nick Raynsford MP to David Whelan 24/10/03 Letter from John McCormick Controller BBC Scotland, to David Whelan, 27/02/04 Letter from Ray Wyre to David Whelan, June 2004 BBC Frontline Scotland employees found to have been dishonest 06/05/04 Letter from Phil Robinson Quarriers' Chief Executive, to David Whelan, 17/08/04 Letter from Phil Robinson Quarriers' Chief Executive, to David Whelan, 05/10/04 Letter from Anna Magnusson to Elizabeth McWilliams, 22/11/05 Statement Of Dissatisfaction submitted to the BBC Progamme Complaints Unit from David Whelan, November 2005 Secrets or Lies - the connections Statement from the FBGA regarding Secrets or Lies, 12/06/06 Frontline Scotland interview with Pearl Mailey/Allison. Helen Porteous BBC Frontline transcript. 
Extracts from Irene Whelan's redacted police statement 08/05/02. Irene makes a number of claims which clearly contradict what the BBC programme "Secrets or Lies" portrayed in 2003, including that Alan Henderson informed her that his brother Ian Henderson was abused by John Porteous (PDF format).
Findings by the BBC Editorial Standards Committee regarding BBC Scotland's Frontline Scotland programme "Secrets or Lies" (PDF format).
Letter from Richard Tait, Chairman of the BBC Editorial Standards Committee, apologising to David Whelan for "errors of judgement", 20/03/2007 (PDF format).We would like to especially thank Mr Mike Jempson of Mediawise, the UK's leading "Media Ethics Trust", for the help and assistance he has given to us during our deliberations with the BBC Governors' Programme Complaints Appeals Committee (GPCC). |