Telling the truth isn't a crime

THERE are paedophiles walking the streets unchecked and drug dealers making a joke of the system every day.

Yet the plods at Strathclyde Police lock up a BBC undercover reporter who exposed staggering failings in homecare for the elderly.

I watched the Panorama programme where Arifa Farooq revealed a catalogue of shortfalls - including curtailed visits, scant regard for medication given to the old folk and workers who were not properly trained.

Her work was the very essence of investigative reporting. And if there is anything criminal going on, then it's the failure of Clydebank firm Domiciliary Care to look after old people.

That's where police should be devoting energies, not locking up a journalist for telling the truth.

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