Fitted Up: A True Story of Police Betrayal, Conspiracy and Cover Up

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When Bill Johnstone's business was destroyed as a result of an arson attack in 2009, like any law-abiding citizen he informed the police, telling them of threats he had received from a disgruntled customer to torch the garage Johnstone ran in Glasgow's west end.

Johnstone assumed the fire-starter would be caught. But the CID were not interested. In frustration, he complained. But rather than jolting the police into action, they turned on him. A rogue policeman applied a serious criminal record to his name. Those malicious keyboard strokes were the catalyst for a high-stakes battle for the former Army officer to clear his name, which cost his partner her job, driving her to the brink of suicide, and brought financial ruin and the threat of prison.

What began as an act of police incompetence escalated into a tangled web of corruption, collusion and cover-up. In an age where vast amounts of our personal information swirls around computer networks, this is a story that could happen to anyone.

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Russell Findlay is an investigative journalist who has spent decades reporting on organised crime, policing, injustice and the law. He now works as a producer for STV News. His previous books are The Iceman: The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord (co-authored with Jim Wilson), Caught in the Crossfire: Scotlands Deadliest Drugs War and the acclaimed Acid Attack: A Journalists War with Organised Crime.