DID YOU see SCOTT?
him? Witnesses who saw the student shortly before he was taken into a police patrol car say he was struggling to walk or talk.
No one has come forward to report seeing Mr Calder on the road after he was allowed to go by police.
Scott’s dad Brian Calder said: “I do not think it was possible for Scott to go into the water near the bus stop and end up where he did.
“To travel that far, with the tides, I did not think was possible.
“His body had to have been there for a while as a police officer told us he had some sand covering him too.”
Mr Calder says there is a possibility his son may have entered the water near to a caravan park, around half a mile from where his body was discovered the next day.
CCTV from a passing bus, which was described to Mr Calder by police officers, shows a man sitting on the pavement close to the caravan site with a similar outfit to the lederhosen Scott was wearing. However, when Mr Calder asked to see the footage, he was told he would be unable to due to data protection and he has not been able to confirm whether it was Scott.
He said: “I can’t understand why the police cannot share this CCTV with us.
“Police stated they dropped him off at Fisher Road bus stop. That is all they have told us. They have given us no indication at all of what happened to Scott or how he ended up on the beach.”
Fishermen said that if Scott did not go into the sea near where police say he was dropped off, he would needed to have walked more than a mile along a dark road, despite witnesses who saw him less than an hour earlier saying he was incapable of looking after himself.
Witnesses said they saw him leaving the Oktoberfest event at Gosford House on October 13 around 10.30pm when he was walking among moving cars and clearly at risk. Police were alerted by a concerned member of the public.
When a Sunday Post reporter tried the walk from where the police say they dropped Scott off to the beach where he was found in broad daylight, it took more than half an hour.
In some sections the pavement disappeared, forcing pedestrians to cross the road, where the speed limit is 60mph, or try to walk along it, in the path of oncoming traffic driving round sharp bends with limited visibility.
Police Scotland said it is still investigating what happened to Scott, and is awaiting the post mortem results which, it says, can take up to three months, at which point Scott’s family will be updated.
A spokesperson confirmed police had not spoken to anyone who saw Mr Calder after officers dropped him off at the bus stop that night. The national force reported the officers’ involvement with Mr Calder before his death to watchdogs at the Police and Investigations Review Commissioner.
They did not investigate the officers’ actions and decision- making before Mr Calder’s death but after an “assessment” ruled they had acted “appropriately”.
One retired officer, with more than 20 years’ experience including many years working on patrol, said it is very disappointing that Mr Calder’s family are still waiting for answers.
He said: “Given that members of the public feared for the young man’s safety and given what happened to him, it is difficult to understand why the decisions made by the officers involved have apparently not been questioned in any meaningful way.
“The police seem content to suggest his death was an unavoidable tragedy. But they would, wouldn’t they?”.
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