Lynsey Hamill, Gestapo Director

 This story in the National

reports

"An initiative by the Scottish Parliament has employed two members of staff – one a former police inspector – to trawl the social media accounts of 69 MSPs who signed up to the review.

The pair found 23,507 posts considered abusive in 2024-25, but which did not reach the required level to be considered criminal.

In the most recent year, 257 posts were referred to Police Scotland – down from 461 the previous year – with one case proceeding to court.

The Scottish Parliament’s monitoring software searches social media for threatening and abusive language and can refer the posts to police if required.

A briefing sent to MSPs by Holyrood’s director of operations and digital, Lynsey Hamill, said: “Whilst it is too early to draw any firm conclusions on trends and success of the scheme when comparing data from the pilot year and year one, we can see the scale of online abuse of MSPs is now readily apparent and growing."

Lynsey Hamill - Gestapo Director

This then would appear to be the Director of Gestapo Operations at the Scottish Parliament -

Lynsey Hamill - Linked-In 

Director Hamill was quoted in December 2024 by Holyrood's story - Man convicted for threatening MSP after new parliament monitoring scheme introduced helpfully explaining that Holyrood's very own Gestapo was -

".. launched in response to a review of the personal security provision for MSPs and staff undertaken by the SPCB following the murder of Conservative MP Sir David Amess in 2021."

I wonder if Director Hamill is aware of the circumstances of Sir David's murder? Perhaps she could learn something from Wikipedia - David Amess - Murder?

"On 15 October 2021, Amess was fatally stabbed at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Hall in Leigh-on-Sea. Amess's murder was later declared a "terrorist incident" by the Metropolitan Police. The investigation, led by Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command, explored "a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism".

The killer, Ali Harbi Ali, a British citizen of Somali descent, was arrested at the scene, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. A post-mortem examination determined Amess died from multiple stab wounds to the chest."

Unsurprisingly, Sir David did not die from reading multiple abusive tweets on his digital device, but from being stabbed by an Islamic terrorist.🙄

To secure MPs and MSPs from being murdered then security staff would be better directed to search people for knives at constituency surgeries etc. than waste time searching for abusive, maybe, but harmless social media posts.

Directing "information security analysts" to search for abusive social media posts but not for knives at constituency surgeries is disgracefully incompetent misdirection and any director responsible for such misdirection of staff should be dismissed.

Lynsey Hamill should be sacked from the employment of the Scottish Parliament if MSPs are to be kept safe. Hamill's incompetence is a risk to security and her assault on the freedom to post on social media represents a fascist threat to the freedom of expression which is the lifeblood of the democracy of Scotland.

Sack Hamill immediately!