Mrs. Helen Tinney (Hansard, 27 October 1994)

§ Mr. Mike Watson (Glasgow, Central)

I beg leave to present a petition on behalf of many people in the city of Glasgow, following the tragic death of Mrs. Helen Tinney on 12 September 1993. Her death followed the demolition of large multi-storey block in the city in circumstances that have given rise to considerable concern to many people in Glasgow.

The petition has been signed by 2,158 people, whose names have been collected mainly from the Gorbals district of Glasgow, but also from further afield within that city. Earlier this week, a further 3,000 names on other petitions were presented to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing street.

The concern of the people of Glasgow has been occasioned by the fact that the procurator fiscal has chosen at this stage not to prefer charges or identify someone as responsible for the death of Helen Tinney. Her family—specifically her widower, Mr. Eddie Tinney, her daughters Maureen and Elaine Tinney, and her son John—and many other people are very concerned about this matter.

I therefore present this petition: Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House will do all in its power to ensure that those persons responsible for the death of Helen Tinney are identified and duly prosecuted. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.