Pressure is growing on the Scottish Government to say sorry for the ‘Tinker Experiment’ after two more Gypsy Travellers from Perthshire said they were “shocked” and “upset” at learning about the atrocities of the policy.Elizabeth McAllister McLaren and Jacqueline McCallum both live on the Double Dykes site in Inveralmond, and are part of a nation-wide call for the government to apologise for years of discrimination.Enforced since the 1940s, the ‘Tinker Experiment’ saw Travellers placed in huts in a bid to take them off the road and make them integrate with the rest of the population.Travellers across Scotland were forced to live in substandard accommodation, which caused them to be ostracised by society and treated as second-class citizens.
Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk