The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) investigation into the allegation that ‘whistle-blowers’ were incentivised to provide evidence to the McGrail Inquiry “has not uncovered any evidence that meets the threshold for criminal prosecution for Misconduct in Public Office.”
In order for the Sewers Infrastructure Section of the Technical Services Department to continue essential works to repair the main trunk sewer along Line Wall Road, the following traffic arrangements will be put in place:
Monday’s press release by the Environmental Safety Group (ESG) regarding an infection acquired by a young man on a wound was factually incorrect.
Government has been able to ascertain that, contrary to the ESG’s remarks, St Bernard’s Hospital made no statement about this or any other infection. It appears that the report was based on comments made to the patient by one of the clinicians and that this information was not confirmed nor backed up by firm laboratory results.
From the outset there was no evidence that the infection in question had been acquired at Western Beach. In fact, the GHA Laboratory has informed the Ministry for Health and the Environment that the micro-organisms identified from the infected wounds were not those associated with faeces.
The brief from the Laboratory, which also tests the water from Western Beach three times a week, states:
A Government statement on this morning's Guardia Civil incident: The Government condemns the interference by Spanish fishing boats with the work being carried out near the western end of the runway.