The policedid notinvestigate thedeathsearlierthis yearofPeterand Penelope Duff, who became the firstterminally ill Britishcouple to be helped to die together inSwitzerland.
Chief Constable Strang was giving evidence, along side Chief Superintendent Paul Main from Strathclyde Police, PeterDuff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen and Gerard Sinclair the chief executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission on the Carloway review, on Tuesday 13 December 2011.
PeterDuff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen, told the committee he agreed with Lord Carloway that corroboration "could go" and stressed there were a number of "corroboration fiddles" used to get round the law and there was a lack of clarity in this "very complex area of law".