Leggoland - REGAN, DERMOT DESMOND AND THE CARE HOMES SCANDAL

[ian1964 10,626]

PETER LAWWELLâ??S best pal in football, Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan, has been strangely quiet on whether there should be an investigation into whether Lawwellâ??s boss, Dermot Desmond is a fit and proper person to be a Celtic director.

 

Regan, you may recall, was quick off the mark to announce that he had ordered an SFA probe into Rangers owner and chairman, Craig Whyte after being bombarded by an avalanche of questions from Philmacgiollabhain, relating to events Whyte was involved on the edge of more than a decade ago.

 

But there has been no such reaction from Regan over Dermot Desmondâ??s financial involvement in a story which has been given UK wide publicity and which has caused revulsion among all right thinking people.

 

It is scandal surrounding a company called Castlebeck Care and in particular a home owned by the company called Winterbourne View. The full story regarding what went on, and the cruel mistreatment of so many vulnerable members of society, is detailed by the BBC and Guardian reports.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15924774

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/17/castlebeck-care-homes-close-unit

 

There are further investigations taking place and it is believed the full horror will reveal other atrocious acts of cruelty perpetrated in anything up to 20 homes owned by Castlebeck Care.

 

So who owns the Castlebeck Care Company? Well there are a number of investors. And one of them is said to be the secretive and sometimes even reclusive Dermot Desmond, the man whose majority shareholding makes him effectively the owner of Celtic plc, on whose board he sits.

 

Now, not for a moment am I even hinting that Irish billionaire Dermot Desmond had any idea of the cruelties being carried out in these care homes. But it may be argued in court at a later date that if he was willing to trouser a profit from Castlebeck Care to add to his billions, then he had a legal duty to be aware of what was going on in the care homes.

 

That may prove be a difficult legal point and when mâ??learned friends are involved who knows what a tangled web will be weaved. However, I leave it to others to decide whether Dermot Desmond had a moral duty to know what was happening in the homes the company he invested in ran.

 

But maybe Dermot Desmondâ??s employee, Peter Lawwellâ??s best pal, Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan, is not interested in the moral mores of the matter. Not that the fact his close relationship with Celtic chief executive Lawwell, whose wages are paid by the scandal hit Castlebeck Care company investor and Celtic director Dermot Desmond, will have had any influence on Reganâ??s thinking.

 

And, to recap, Stewart Reganâ??s thinking is, that the SFA must probe Craig Whyte for something which happened a decade ago, but ignore a far more serious and sickening scandal that Dermot Desmond is at the heart of in the here and now.

 

That is the way the Scottish Football Association works since Stewart Regan arrived, sacked Hugh Dallas and then invited Peter Lawwell to take a seat at the boardroom table of Scottish footballâ??s governing body.

 

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Edited December 8, 2011 by ian1964

[Guest Dutchy]

I said a long time ago that DD probably has a few skeltons in his closet as well. All businessmen, and women, have.

 

I'd question whether Regan is fit and proper to head up the SFA, but as usual, we'll not find out until the bam has well and truely gone, if even then?