Report in today's
Glasgow Sunday Mail
RORY COPS'AIR SEARCH DELAY
Chiefs refused to let chopper join hunt
POLICE chiefs have been criticised for delaying an air search in the hours after tragic schoolboy Rory Blackhall went missing.
Senior officers refused three separate requests for a helicopter with heat-seeking equipment to join the hunt.
The decision left detectives engaged in the search "baffled".
Eleven-year-old Rory's body was found hidden under a tarpaulin in woodland three days after he vanished last August.
An independent report into how Lothian and Borders Police investigated his disappearance then death has highlighted the refusal to call in the helicopter and has advised the force to review their procedures.
A source said: "This was the largest missing person search in Scotland in recent years and all the stops should have been pulled out to find Rory as quickly as possible."
Seems odd on the face of it.
Anyone know any more?
H.