Judy Murray arrives for the Public Inquiry

Judy Murray sat down at 4.30 pm today at the Park of Keir Public Inquiry all set to give her evidence – while the media who had hung round all day waiting for it sharpened their pencils, or laptops as the case is today, when the Reporter announced that there would not be time for her to be cross examined, as well as to give evidence, so she would be called another day.
 
( She will now be giving evidence on Wednesday since she is not available tomorrow.)
 
Well, this was a big anti-climax for the media because they had been there since shortly after 9am this morning – only to discover that now there was no story.
 
All day had been taken up by three unknown sporting witnesses- none of them of public interest.
 
I ended up feeling sorry for the first one, Eleanor Cannon, chair of Scottish Golf, six weeks into the job who neither knew the local area nor facilities available and was given a right mauling by two Advocates.
In the course of two hours intensive grilling she changed from a confident bouncy blonde business executive to a harassed middle-aged woman desperately searching for a lifeline. There wasn’t one.
 
   
Maybe she was misinformed. Maybe she thought this was going to be a glossy PR exercise. Instead she found herself subjected to forensic questioning by two Advocates from the upper echelons of the Scottish legal system, as they drilled down into witness statement.