It emerged yesterday that the gay former councillor had been warned by police last year about an underworld plot to blackmail him. In another bizarre twist, a teenage boy who was a close friend of Purcell's and worked at the same council mysteriously collapsed and died in the street close to the ex-councillor's former office on Friday. Danus McKinlay, an 18-year-old apprentice at Glasgow City Council and a well-known Labour activist, is said to have 'idolised' Purcell. Police said the death was 'not suspicious' but a post mortem will be carried out this week.
Go West: Purcell is thought to be in Florida
A photograph emerged yesterday of Purcell at a night out with his arm around McKinlay, who is also a Facebook friend of Tony Blair's former spin-doctor Alastair Campbell. Purcell, who has fled the country and is thought to be in Florida, continued as council chief after officers from an elite drug squad told him at a meeting in his private office that he had been seen socialising with a suspect in a police drugs surveillance probe.
And it just goes on and on and on ...
A photograph emerged yesterday of Purcell at a night out with his arm around McKinlay, who is also a Facebook friend of Tony Blair's former spin-doctor Alastair Campbell. Purcell, who has fled the country and is thought to be in Florida, continued as council chief after officers from an elite drug squad told him at a meeting in his private office that he had been seen socialising with a suspect in a police drugs surveillance probe.
And it just goes on and on and on ...
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