Purcell dilemma
It is perfectly legitimate to investigate who and when anyone in the Labour Party, either in the council or nationally, was aware of Purcell's problems or any involvement with illegal drugs or with the police as this may have had a detrimental effect on his judgment as the man responsible for Glasgow's budget of 2.5 billion a year.
If anyone within Labour knew of these problems, or even suspected them months ago but did nothing, then they are culpable and may have hastened Purcell's deterioration.
JANICE THOMPSON
Walter Scott Avenue
Edinburgh