SCOTLAND’S clinical director deleted electronic messages he sent during the pandemic, according to reports.
Professor Jason Leitch’s WhatsApp messages cannot be handed over to official inquiries because he deleted them every day, The Times reports.
On Leitch, a Scottish Government spokesperson said: “As the first minister has said, anyone - ministers or civil servants, including clinicians - are committed to co-operating fully with the Covid-19 inquiries. This includes providing any requested material in their possession.
In her closing remarks at Thursday’s hearing, inquiry chair Lady Hallett said: “It will not surprise anyone to learn that I am very concerned about the difficulties that the Module 2A team have encountered in obtaining the material they need to ensure a thorough and rigorous analysis of key decision-making in Scotland during the worst stages of the pandemic.”
The submission also “respectfully disagreed” with the assertion that the Scottish Government’s position on WhatsApp is “incomplete”.
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