Stalker who harassed family of Lockerbie cop in charge of £357k Gaza fundraiser

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2 days ago

Susan McNarey conducted a chilling two year stalking campaign on the family of the late Sir John Orr, claiming they had an affair and collaborated together to find cure for coronavirus.
A woman who stalked the family of a top cop and his family is running a GoFundMe campaign for Gaza babies that has collected more than £357,000.
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Susan McNarey, 61, orchestrated a harassment campaign against the family of the late police chief Sir John Orr, who was in charge of the Lockerbie bomb inquiry.
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A sheriff at Dumfries Sheriff Court ordered McNarey to get urgent mental health treatment after she was put on trial over the stalking campaign in 2022.
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But after spending time in hospital, McNarey emerged to set up The Gaza Team, which claims to help hundreds of babies in the crisis zone stay alive.
Sources close to the John Orr case claim McNarey's recent history makes her unsuitable to administer such sums of cash, with no proper scrutiny or accountability.
One said: 'Sir John's family have been distressed to hear that this woman has raised such a massive amount of money after what they were put through.
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'McNarey was lurking around their father's grave at a time when the family had gathered to pay their respects. She left a wreath with a disturbing message and seemed to believe the tangled story she had created in her own head.
'The Crown Office made clear that McNarey would be forced to seek psychiatric help.'
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Cash donated to a GoFundMe page goes straight to McNarey, who also collects further large sums direct to her Paypal account.
She claims that every penny goes directly to supplying aid.
McNarey appalled members of the Orr family after she turned up at the grave of the senior lawman - who was the former chief constable of Strathclyde Police - leaving a creepy wreath at the same time his loved ones had gathered to pay respects.
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She was accused of writing letters and emails that made wild claims about Orr, claiming she had an affair with him and that they collaborated together with their own experiments to find a cure for coronavirus.
In a stalking campaign of more than two years, McNarey falsely claimed Sir John, who died in 2018 at 72, had been involved in torture, rape, human trafficking and prostitution.
She claimed in court that Sir John's detective son paid to have her and her daughter attacked.
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But after being hit with a five year Non-Harassment Order against victims, McNarey emerged from hospital and set up the fundraiser for The Gaza Team, which she runs from her new home in Turkey.
On the GoFundMe page, McNarey, 61, claims to be an expert in 'disaster management'.
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She writes: 'Hello, I'm Susan from Scotland, trained in disaster management and organising supply chains in areas of genocide, war, poverty and pandemic.
'Our pro-active ground teams in Gaza organise the regular distribution of baby formula, the daily cooking and distribution of food to displaced babies, orphans & children who would otherwise have starved.
'Join with us. We are all Gaza Team. YOU CAN SAVE A PALESTINIAN CHILDS LIFE TODAY.'
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McNarey adds: 'Our Gaza Team Baby Milk Distribution Program, providing regular baby milk for more than 330 babies.'
Her Facebook page claims to have recently delivered 100 tonnes of baby milk formula to Gaza, despite an Israeli blockade.
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On Facebook, McNarey's claims have been widely challenged and she has been accused of ignoring or blocking those who are critical of her.
At Dumfries Sheriff Court in 2022, McNarey sacked her lawyer and conducted her own defence.
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Sir John's sons - both police detectives - gave testimony against McNarey at court.
McNarey, who ran a wood burning stove business in Ayrshire, claimed in court she worked in 'counter terrorism' for Margaret Thatcher's government between 1985 and 1988 and also had experience in 'disaster planning operations' from time spent in China.
McNarey told the court: 'My defence is I'm trying to prevent deaths from coronavirus. The information I carry is life-threatening and onerous and correct.'
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The court heard she regularly visited the grave of Sir John and left sunflowers and notes signed 'Eva'.
McNarey claimed she and Sir John jointly engaged in 'virological work' and carried out experiments into coronaviruses between 2005 and 2013.
The fantasist also claimed she was the victim of an attempted murder after being set upon by '17 black belts' in 1993 while with a police surveillance officer, while carrying out investigations into Lockerbie.
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She alleged she was in a relationship with Sir John in the 1980s and the pair stayed together at a cottage in Cumbria.
David Moran, a retired police detective who was a neighbour to McNarey's adoptive parents in Glasgow's Jordanhill, told the court McNarey contacted him repeatedly in 2019 in person and by letter.
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He told the court: 'You just need to read the letters to see it's all just nonsense, it was fantasy.'
Despite taking the stand during the trial in 2022, McNarey was deemed unfit to stand trial.
Sheriff Speir nonetheless held an Evidence of Facts Hearing over two days and believed it to be proven that McNarey engaged in a course of conduct that caused fear and alarm towards the sons of John Orr between June 2018 and September 2020 in Glasgow and at a cemetery in Kilmarnock.
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The Sheriff granted a Compulsion Order for 6 months, meaning that, due to the mental illness of the accused, she could not be sent to prison but must stay in hospital for treatment or have treatment in the community.
The Sheriff also granted a Non Harassment Order for five years, ordering McNarey to keep away from the Orr brothers and another victim.
Sir John Orr was back in the spotlight recently in the major drama about Lockerbie, where he was played by Peter Mullan.
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Sir John led the investigation into the terrorist atrocity on Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people in December 1988.
The former Kilmarnock chairman and grandad of eight was knighted by the Queen in 2001 for his services to policing.
McNarey now claims to be based in Istanbul, Turkey, and claims her missionary work has led to serious illness and near death from exhaustion.
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In response to questions about how the money is spent, she claims to have sold a block of flats in Kilmarnock to fund her life.
On Facebook, many cautionary posts have been made about The Gaza Team.
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When the Daily Record called McNarey, she said the funds from GoFundMe - and far more - was channelled through her own bank account to aid workers in Gaza.
She said: 'We have two teams on the ground and we have clear evidence that our funds are directly saving the lives of babies in Gaza.
'If you write anything about this you will be killing babies in Gaza.'
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McNarey later sent several emails which revealed her ongoing obsession with the Lockerbie bombing, which she still believes she has crucial knowledge of.
She also made further unsubstantiated claims about Sir John Orr.
McNarey said her disaster planning expertise was gained at a college in Israel many years ago.