John Dunn

John Dunn, a career prosecutor with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in 2018. He passed away last Wednesday.

After more than 30 years with the prosecution service he retired in February 2019 from his final role as deputy crown agent with responsibility for local courts across Scotland and around 1,000 colleagues.

As a young procurator fiscal depute he was part of the team that worked on the case against Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi. He spent time in Libya and Malta working with investigators to gather evidence on the tragedy, and ultimately was at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands for the criminal trial.

Crown Agent David Harvie said: “John was an outstanding prosecutor, but first and foremost he was a kind, caring, intelligent man who is greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues.”

Born in Glasgow in 1962, Mr Dunn was educated at St Aloysius College and went on to secure an honours degree and diploma in legal practice at Strathclyde University, before undertaking postgraduate studies at Pembroke College, Oxford.

He joined the Procurator Fiscal Service as a trainee solicitor in 1985 and served initially in Paisley.

He was assigned to the Lockerbie investigation in 1991 and then went to work on complex frauds before returning to the case for the trial.

Colleagues at the Crown Office respected him for his meticulous professionalism and regularly enjoyed his sense of humour.
A keen mountaineer, he is survived by his wife Sandra and siblings Barbara, Kenneth and Helen.

His funeral will take place on Saturday 28 September at 10am at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Jordanhill and then 11.30 am at Clydebank Dalnottar Crematorium.