Five-year wait for M9 crash inquiry ‘unforgivable’, warns Willie Rennie

THE wait for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the M9 crash that police took three days to attend has been “glacial and agonising”, Willie Rennie has said.

John Yuill, 28, and his partner Lamara Bell, 25, died after their car crashed off the road near Stirling in July 2015. Despite a call being made to police, it took them three days to respond.

When officers finally arrived at the scene, Mr Yuill was found to be dead and Ms Bell died later in hospital.

On the five-year anniversary of the crash, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Rennie said the wait for answers endured by the couple’s friends and family has been “unforgivable”.

He added: “It has been five years since the accident. It has been four years since the Lord Advocate told me it would be ‘inconceivable’ not to hold an FAI ‘given the public concern over this tragedy’.

“I warned then the wait was already too long. I am appalled.”

A Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPF) spokesman said the investigation into the M9 crash is still ongoing.