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Meeting of the Parliament 12 February 2026 [Draft]

12 Feb 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
Justice System (Death of Keith Rollinson)
Findlay, Russell Con West Scotland Watch on SPTV

John Swinney cannot say it, so I will say it for him: a violent killer not spending a single night in prison and potentially being back home after two years is not justice. It is sickening, and it is an affront to Sue Rollinson and her family.

The killer was given a shockingly short sentence because of guidelines that were introduced by a Scottish National Party quango. Judges are told not to jail criminals aged up to 25 and to impose lighter sentences. Those guidelines traumatise victims by treating murderers and rapists as though they are children. That is all based on the nonsense belief that they are not mature enough to be responsible for their crimes.

That is one of the many ways in which the SNP Government has spent years weakening Scotland’s justice system. For the sake of victims such as Keith Rollinson, will John Swinney do the right thing and finally scrap those disgraceful guidelines?

In the same item of business

1. Russell Findlay (West Scotland) (Con) Con
Sue Rollinson’s beloved husband of 33 years went out to work as a bus driver but never came home. Keith Rollinson was violently attacked by a teenage thug an...
The First Minister (John Swinney) SNP
Before I come on to the important point that Mr Findlay has raised, I record my sadness at the death of Jeane Freeman, who was one of my Cabinet colleagues w...
Russell Findlay Con
John Swinney cannot say it, so I will say it for him: a violent killer not spending a single night in prison and potentially being back home after two years ...
The First Minister SNP
As Mr Findlay correctly says, the information and guidance on sentencing come from the independent Scottish Sentencing Council, which takes a considered view...
Russell Findlay Con
My description of the SNP’s sentencing guidelines was 100 per cent accurate. Keith Rollinson’s killer previously attacked another bus driver, yet, after that...
The First Minister SNP
The draft code that will enable the decisions that Mr Findlay is talking about to be made was shared with the parliamentary committee that will scrutinise th...
Russell Findlay Con
In attempting to decipher all that, it sounds as though the killer may well still have his free bus pass, despite killing a bus driver.Keith Rollinson’s trag...
The First Minister SNP
I have every sympathy for Mrs Rollinson and what she has endured. She and her husband should never have had to experience the awfulness of what they have exp...
The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone) NPA
Let us hear one another.
The First Minister SNP
At the same time, people are being sentenced for invariably longer periods in prison as a consequence of the success of the Government in taking forward, thr...