Listen: Shiny Bob – The Devil’s Advocate

It was claimed that gay judges and lawyers – who feared reputational damage if their homosexuality was revealed at the time – were posing a threat to the justice system. The subsequent media feeding frenzy gripped Scotland for years.

The story circulating in legal and journalistic circles suggested a cabal of high-profile, gay legal professionals had been perverting the course of justice.

But this claim, that collapsed cases were linked to ‘a list’ that could expose some big legal names, was really a conspiracy theory, woven together by a powerful lawyer, Bob Henderson.

So why did the lawyer nicknamed ‘Shiny Bob’, a flamboyant figure in Scotland’s courtrooms, cause such chaos?

Decades later, dark secrets about the once-celebrated lawyer and his inner circle, would start to emerge.

Featuring exclusive interviews with one of the arrested journalists, Scotland’s most senior judge at the time, detectives and victims, this podcast series unravels the sinister mystery of the master manipulator, Bob Henderson.

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