SNP call over smuggler escape

The Scottish National Party is demanding a government statement over the escape of a drug smuggler after he was moved to an open prison.

Rodderick McLean was involved a £10m drug smuggling operation between Scotland and Spain six years ago.

During his capture, a customs official was killed.

Perth MP Annabel Ewing is to table an emergency question in the House of Commons, demanding to know why he was placed in a low security jail.


McLean and his gang were caught off the Caithness coast, trying to smuggle cannabis into the country.