A young woman called Jess Insall believes that she was spiked during a night out and she has bravely spoken publicly about her distressing ordeal as a warning to others.
Tory MSP Russell Findlay, pictured right, who raised her case in the Scottish Parliament this week, told MSPs: “However, because of a 34-hour delay in police taking a sample, she will most likely never know what happened to her, let alone get justice.
“Instead of setting up yet more SNP talking shops, can the First Minister tell us when her Government will start to take this dangerous and predatory crime seriously?
Nicola Sturgeon told the former Sunday Mail investigative journalist: “We do take it seriously. Let me put on the record my sympathies to the young woman for her experience. Every woman in the country understands how serious such offences are and the consequences of the impact that they have on people’s lives.
“How the police conduct criminal investigations is a matter for the police and, rightly, not for ministers. I am willing to correspond with the chief constable [Ian Livingstone] on this case to seek any explanation that he is able to give for the situation that has been narrated in the chamber, and to ask the justice secretary [Keith Brown] to write to the member in due course.
“These are serious crimes and I know that the police take them seriously, as does the Government.”
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